Orleans Parish lost roughly 200,000 trees due to Hurricane Katrina, Burley said. Now, it's SOUL's mission to restore its tree canopy.

In February, communities around the country learned that funding was canceled for a nationwide tree-planting program aimed at ...

Arthur Johnson has lived in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward for nearly three decades, long enough to appreciate the trees that filter pollution from the big ships traveling the nearby Mississippi ...

In New Orleans, the group Sustaining Our Urban Landscape (SOUL), which has already planted more than 1,600 trees in the city's Lower 9th Ward, is now unable to move forward with plans to add 900 more.