These steel structures feature bright yellow recycled seat belt webbing that is woven to create a shade covering. They also planted native trees, shrubs and grasses grown from locally collected seed.

As temperatures soar, the City of El Paso is taking steps to provide relief by installing shade structures in parks across ...

The various shade structures in this article are great if you don’t have room in your yard for a large tree, or if you want to avoid planting large trees near your house (for example if you have ...

Shade structures don’t really have any organized lobbying groups. “There’s so many people who are already tree advocates,” Turner said. “Heat now is a new entry point to advocate for trees.

The former 2010 shade plan aimed to shade 25% of the city by 2030, but it fizzled out years after it passed. Today, the city is roughly 11% shaded, the same as in 2010, based on the most recent ...