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Rice University

TREES 3

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Rice University statisticians matched health data from earlier studies that linked asthma attacks among schoolchildren and cardiac arrest to pollution in Houston neighborhoods to determine where planting “super trees” would have the most benefit. In this map, the red hatch marks show regions of high incidence of ambulance-treated asthma attacks and/or cardiac arrest.

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Source: Hopkins, L. P., January-Bevers, D. J., Caton, E. K., & Campos, L. A. (2021). A simple tree-planting framework to improve climate, air pollution, health and urban heat in vulnerable locations using nontraditional partners. Plants, People, Planet, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10245

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