An Adult Tree Is Worth as Much as a Middle-Class Car: How to Save Natural Air Conditioning in Cities?
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The trees are suffering from an acute lack of water in this dry summer. However, it is needed as a natural air conditioner in cities. Do citizens have to water city trees?
Even in the deeper layers of the soil, much of the country is experiencing extreme drought.
Urban trees are especially important for protection from the heat - especially in an increasingly hot world, in the era of climate change caused by the use of fossil fuels. In the canopy, the temperature is up to three degrees lower than in the surroundings - thanks to cooling by evaporation that occurs during photosynthesis. But above all, trees create shade and thus prevent the warming of their surroundings
Fran Poštenjak, Croatia's first tree doctor, warns that the true damage from this year's drought may not be visible until autumn.
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