Austin logged 49 triple-digit days this year and heat-related ER visits nearly doubled to 1,200, but the real gap is east of I-35, where tree canopy covers just 22% of the land versus 78% to the west. The city just became the first in the nation to adopt a national tree equity standard, and had to fight to get classified as a forest, not grassland.

— via Austin Chronicle, Aaron R. Davis