Life in a city can be especially hard for a tree. Buildings, pollution, poor soil, insects, and even car crashes can add to tree loss. Now, the warming climate is making a tree’s life even harder. Between 2016 and 2021, a report from the city of Seattle in Washington state said the city lost about 255 hectares of tree covering. The report blamed climate change in part for the loss.
Title: Climate Change Causes City Trees to Struggle
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5719/A30.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Climate Change Causes City Trees to Struggle' data-article-id='6322'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='5958'>Life in a city can be especially hard for a tree.</span> <span data-start-time='5958' data-end-time='16000'>Buildings, pollution, poor soil, insects, and even car crashes can add to tree loss. </span> <span data-start-time='16000' data-end-time='22938'>Now, the warming climate is making a tree’s life even harder.</span> <span data-start-time='22938' data-end-time='39854'>Between 2016 and 2021, a report from the city of Seattle in Washington state said the city lost about 255 hectares of tree covering. </span> <span data-start-time='39854' data-end-time='45771'>The report blamed climate change in part for the loss.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5719/A30.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' 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