Walk outside on a sweltering Florida summer afternoon and step from a sun-baked street into the shade of a tree. The temperature drop is dramatic, and in parts of Tampa, that relief has been disappearing. Shawn Landry, a researcher at the University of South Florida (USF), told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay this temperature difference reflects […]
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Tampa has $6 million to spend on tree canopy mitigation, advocates and officials disagree on how the money should be used
The canopy has been diminished by overdevelopment and back-to-back hurricanes in 2024.
