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Trees can play a huge role in the health of people living in cities, but across the country, cities are losing millions of trees year after year. And many poor urban neighborhoods — often home to a city’s most vulnerable — are starting at a disadvantage.

Researchers at the University of Louisville have shown that living near an abundance of green vegetation can offset the negative effects of air pollution on blood vessel health.

Trees can add beauty and serenity to a neighborhood — but can they also improve the health of its residents? In Kentucky, the University of Louisville — with help from the National Institutes of Health and The Nature Conservancy — aims to find out. Called Green Heart Louisville, the initiative involves a large-scale scientific study […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — University of Louisville researchers are launching an initiative to plant 8,000 trees in south Louisville as part of a study on environmental impact. Researchers put some trees in the ground on Monday as part of the Green Heart Initiative to study how the surrounding area is affected by having more vegetation […]

The Green Heart Project and the Nature Conservancy are planting around 8,000 trees and shrubs in several of Louisville’s southern neighborhoods. Researchers with the University of Louisville are collecting health data from nearly 700 participants living in select neighborhoods and will collect it again two years from now. They will later compare results and study […]

The Green Heart Project involves planning nearly 8,000 trees and shrubs in six South Louisville neighborhoods and around Wyandotte Park.

Like all public health professionals enduring the COVID-19 crisis, environmental health workers have not had the luxury to focus on just their specialty—especially when climate change and emerging disease are so intertwined.

New research from the University Louisville indicates people who live in areas with lots of trees and greenery can live longer and have a better chance of fighting depression and cancer than people in urban areas.

Evidence is growing that living in areas of high greenness, surrounded by trees, shrubs and other vegetation, has beneficial effects on human health.

Researchers at the University of Louisville’s Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute and other colleagues recently published two studies showing positive effects of greenness: one on cancer survival and the other on depressive symptoms.

The greener the neighborhood, the longer neighbors survive cancer. That’s according to a recent study by the University of Louisville’s (UofL) “Green Heart Project.”

Louisville, Kentucky, where trees keep it cool.