Phoenix Plants Hedges to Reduce Kids' Exposure to Pollution

Dedicated to limiting students' exposure to pollutants, Phoenix City staff, school faculty, and Arizona State University researchers planted trees and shrubs with K-8 students on unused school playgrounds. This project is poised to benefit more than 121,000 children under the age of 5 years old in Phoenix, while lowering carbon emissions, and improving urban natural canopy which decreases high ground temperatures caused by concrete acreage.