Large clusters of delicate, long-lasting blossoms fill yards with bursts of pink, red or purple all summer. For purple flowers, the Purple Magic Crape Myrtle Tree is a good option. It reaches a mature ...

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The schoolyard of the future has trees to play under, or canvas canopies to shade a climbing gym ... At one elementary school near Phoenix, Allison Poulos, an assistant professor at Arizona ...

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Phoenix gets national coverage for dangerous heat, but rising temperatures force New York to confront past and present ...

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