Some people in Los Angeles have worked for years to increase the number of trees that provide shade and respite from heat and air pollution.
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FILE - Beachfront properties are burned to the ground by the Palisades Fire on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Malibu, Calif. FILE - Embers are blown off a burning tree as the Eaton Fire burns in Altadena, Calif., Jan. 8, 2025. – Some people across Los Angeles have worked for years to increase the number of trees that give respite from heat and air pollution.
The air is still so bad that field crews cannot yet work safely. When they go out, he said, they expect to to find snapped, broken or dried out young trees. Replanting trees in burned neighborhoods is harder because of climate change, said Will Berleson, a professor at USC’s Department of Earth Sciences and researcher with the university’s Urban Trees Initiative. Even though many of the city’s mature trees might be 30 or 40 years old, they “started growing at times when it was not as hot and didn’t have these kinds of wet and dry fluctuations that we seem to be seeing now,” he said.
Thomas, who grew up in Altadena, has family members who lost homes to the Eaton Fire north of Pasadena, which has burned more than 7,000 structures. His brother’s home burned, but the five coast live oaks in his backyard survived.
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