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Good Strategies for Cold Damage in the Landscape: Recovery, Not Panic. - UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade County Email 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Reddit 0 X Linkedin 0 Stumbleupon 0 A plant’s ability to tolerate cold temperatures depends on its species as well as how low the temperature drops and how quickly it declines. Plants native to tropical or subtropical regions are especially vulnerable to cold damage. O...

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🧽 Sponge cities absorb risk and restore balance.🏙️

Cities can’t keep paving over nature and expect resilience to follow. The sponge city approach offers an integrated solution — blending ecology, technology, and urban governance to reduce both flood and heat risks while improving quality of life.

🌿 How it works:
✔️ Unsealed surfaces and green roofs absorb stormwater
✔️ Retention basins and open watercourses reduce flood peaks
✔️ Vegetation and flowing water cool urban heat islands and recharge groundwater

These nature-based measures also boost biodiversity, clean the air, and create spaces where people want to live.

To scale up impact, the sponge city principle must be embedded in urban planning, building codes, and financing frameworks, supported by national and local governments and designed with community participation.

🌱Explore sponge cities and other nature-based solutions ➡️ https://ow.ly/ZvLa50X7B2F

Artificial turf might save water—but at what cost? UF Environmental Horticulture researchers reveal surprising risks hiding beneath the surface of synthetic lawns.

Find out why hotter yards could be more than just uncomfortable ➡️ go.ufl.edu/turf

Calling all citizen scientists! The Great Southeast Pollinator Census is August 22-23 and you'll need some time to get familiar with the counting procedure. You only need to count at one plant for 15 minutes to participate.

👀 Get familiar with the counting procedures and how to report your count: https://gsepc.org/
🤝 Join the facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/southeastpollinatorcensus
💯 You even get a little certificate of participation when you're done.

Across neighborhoods in the U.S., something strange is happening. Homeowners are receiving notices from their insurance companies warning them, “Prune back those limbs overhanging your home or lose your coverage.” The offending branches? Those on trees that overhang roofs – even healthy, structurally sound trees and branches.

What might seem like a prudent safety policy is, in practice, triggering a wave of hasty removals, reckless pruning and potential long-term risk. The irony is thick; in trying to prevent damage, insurers often are creating the very conditions that make catastrophic failures more likely.

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Bold Solutions from Emerging Landscape Architecture Leaders (Part I) Research on climate change, biodiversity loss, and systemic inequities is now being undermined. But there are still “crevices, nooks, and crannies” where important independent research …