TBILISI – City dwellers tend to live longer if they are in leafy neighborhoods, according to a study published earlier this week that linked green areas to lower rates of premature death.
Trees in cities are already credited with cooling and cleaning the air, and absorbing planet-warming gases. Now researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health have found they also keep death at bay.
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