[Image description: an image from the movie Dazed and Confused with text that reads “‘This summer is too hot’. Me: ‘Have you ever planted trees?’ ‘No.’ Me: ‘Be a lot cooler if you did’”
[Image description: an image from the movie Dazed and Confused with text that reads “‘This summer is too hot’. Me: ‘Have you ever planted trees?’ ‘No.’ Me: ‘Be a lot cooler if you did’”
But they really help with microclimates. Shade and evaporation from their leaves make the air a lot cooler under the trees.
They also, through their roots, help water runoff to enter the ground and feed the groundwater table instead of creating erosion or floods.