Danbury has begun a project to improve Main Street by removing trees for new sidewalks and promising to replant. In all, 70 trees will be cut down.

As Australian cities heat up, street trees are needed more than ever for their cooling. It turns out many are more resilient to heat than expected.

As Australian cities heat up and dry out, street trees are emerging as frontline defenders of urban livability.

SDOT says there is no evidence “porous paving contributed to the trees’ decline” as the city’s tree wells have been filled in recent years to prevent injuries to pedestrians and people using ...

Worcester, the largest city in Central Massachusetts with a population of 207,000, has porous pavement in some parking lots at a few city parks, but it’s not widely used.

Company officials added there were some porous concrete and rubber pavement options prior to the introduction of Flexi-Pave, but those could end up being warped by extreme weather conditions and ...

Cumberland could've become San Francisco's first fully permeable paved street until engineering issues keeping speed bumps intervened.

There are more than 660,000 street trees in New York City, and many of them are dangerously dehydrated. Local arborists said street trees — which are peed on by dogs, mostly ignored by humans ...

Chambers says the Flexible Pavement comes in extra handy with so many aging trees. The roots often cause issues on a traditional sidewalk.

Of course, in New York, nothing is ever easy. Installing new pavement means digging up part of the street, where very important things are hidden, including electric, phone and gas connections.