🌳 For nearly 50 years, kids in Anacostia played on the shaded lot at 1303 Talbert Terrace SE. But last December, neighbors found a notice stapled to a tree: a developer had secured city approval to cut down 27 trees to build new townhouses. Now, residents are fighting to save what’s left of the community’s only accessible green space—part of a broader trend that’s fueling D.C.’s urban heat crisis. Ward 8 has lost more healthy trees to development than any other part of the city since 2020. Read Hola Cultura’s investigation into where and why the city’s trees are disappearing—and what that means for the people living there. 🌡️🧵 Photos by Darrow Montgomery. Map by Venkata Satish Jasti, Hola Cultura GIS Fellow. #HolaCultura #SPEL #DCheat #UrbanCanopy #TreeEquity #EnvironmentalJustice #Ward8 #Anacostia (fb)

Residents in Southeast D.C. are sounding the alarm on a proposed development that would clear dozens of healthy trees from their block to build new housing. But their fight is about more than keeping the street shady. The loss of tree canopy leaves residents vulnerable to D.C.’s biggest climate threats: urban heat islands and flooding. (fb)