The trees play a vital role in the carbon cycle, and have done so for millennia. Recently, humans have thrown things off a bit by getting rid of lots of trees and digging up a lot more carbon.

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Trees are needed to provide shade and absorb runoff. "So that development going in — if it's lot edge to lot edge — we're going to see an amplification of urban heat," Shandas says.