Autumn Town, left, and Adele Hunt own Pete's Out in the Cold. Image: Carlie Kollath Wells/Axios Only in New Orleans will a hundred people count down the lighting of a pothole Christmas tree like ...

A Louisiana teen recently traveled to New York City to light the famed Rockefeller Christmas tree. Autumn Vinet's trip was made possible by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

To combat flooding and extreme heat, a new master plan for rebuilding New Orleans’ urban forest calls for 100,000 new trees to be planted by 2040. Released Friday, the Reforestation Plan calls ...

The City of New Orleans received an $8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forestry Service to plant trees in underserved areas of the city and expand urban forestry workforce tra… ...

New Orleans’ tree coverage ranked last among 10 comparable cities in the South, according to a report SOUL produced for the city in 2022. While most of the cities, including Atlanta, ...

After Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana in 2005, New Orleans lost hundreds of thousands of trees. The city has since struggled to recover its urban canopy, which today covers less than 19% of New ...

Orleans Parish lost roughly 200,000 trees due to Hurricane Katrina, Burley said. ... Sustaining Our Urban Landscape (SOUL) has planted over 10,000 trees in New Orleans.