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Areas that lost canopy cover year over year saw death rates increase, while those that acquired canopy saw death rates fall.
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Losing fully grown trees from a community might refer life and death, a brand-new research study recommends.
The research study, released Aug. 5 in the journal GeoHealthtracked tree canopy cover and death throughout Chicago communities over 11 years. It discovered that it wasn’t the variety of trees in an area that was most highly connected to locals’ survival– it was whether the total tree canopy was diminishing or growing from one year to the next.
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