Trees halve urban heat island effect globally but unequal benefits only modestly mitigate climate-change warming

Robert I McDonald; TC Chakraborty; Theodore A Endreny; Luke A Parsons; Mariami Marsagishvili; Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez

doi:10.1038/s41467-026-71825-x

Trees halve urban heat island effect globally but unequal benefits only modestly mitigate climate-change warming

Robert I McDonald
, TC Chakraborty
, Theodore A Endreny
, Luke A Parsons
, Mariami Marsagishvili
, Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez

School of Environmental & Natural Sciences

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Original language	English
Article number	3569
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	17
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71825-x
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2026

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