<b>Singapore is planting one million trees to cool its streets, but scientists say the biggest impact could be on air-conditioning bills</b>
- Representative Image of lush urban greenery shading a busy street in Singapore (AI-generated image)As cities across the tropics search for ways to cope with rising temperatures, Singapore has increasingly turned to a familiar, low-tech solution: trees.
- A specific figure keeps surfacing in planning documents and public discussion: the claim that shading a street with trees can lower street-level temperatures by as much as 2.6 degrees Celsius.
- That number has real scientific grounding, but tracing exactly where it comes from, and what local Singapore research has since found on its own streets,
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- Representative Image of lush urban greenery shading a busy street in Singapore (AI-generated image)As cities across the tropics search for ways to cope with rising temperatures, Singapore has increasingly turned to a familiar, low-tech solution: trees.
- A specific figure keeps surfacing in planning documents and public discussion: the claim that shading a street with trees can lower street-level temperatures by as much as 2.6 degrees Celsius.
- That number has real scientific grounding, but tracing exactly where it comes from, and what local Singapore research has since found on its own streets,
Sources: Times of India