
Vegetation, notably tree canopy coverage, plays a key role in offering the kind of relief that Los Angeles (pic) needs: The city is the state's biggest urban heat island thanks in no small part to thousands of kilometres of roads and parking spaces. — AFP
LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles and Google have struck a partnership to track canopy density in the huge US metropolis to determine which neighbourhoods need more trees as a means of fighting extreme temperatures.
Vegetation, notably tree canopy coverage, plays a key role in offering the kind of relief that Los Angeles needs: The city is the state's biggest urban heat island thanks in no small part to thousands of miles of roads and parking spaces.
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