LAND
Studies have shown if we could reforest 0.9% of land deforested, we could remove from the atmosphere 200 gigatons of CO2, which is equivalent to 32% of all CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial revolution….
Turkey has designated 11/11 the National Tree-Planting Day and this year citizens planted 303,150 saplings within one hour!! Turkey’s plans to keep 11/11 as its national tree-planting day and expects to plant 7 billion trees by 2023….
One man’s quest to save the Redwoods of California. Redwoods are enormous trees that can live thousands of years; grow to heights of 350 feet with trunks as large as 30 feet wide. They are very robust, but climate change and mankind’s foolishness threatens their survival…
Do trees talk? Susanne Simard presents the science behind how trees communicate describing the dense network within the forest’s soil as a biological internet with nodes and links. Hub trees, also known as mother trees transfer their excess carbon to sibblings and can even recognize a sibbling over a great distance
The city, Liuzhou, designed for a population of 30,000 people will tackle air pollution. The city will absorb 10,000 tonnes of CO2 annually and produce 900 tonnes of oxygen. A high-speed train will connect Liuzhou to a nearby large city/population 1.2 million.
Ethiopia is focused on reforestation and regreening its countryside to combat deforestation and also to achieve food security.
Ethiopia not only successfully restored soil productivity, but reforested 2700 hectares without planting a single tree!!
The extraordinary rainforest restored on a small patch of land in the Amazon by one man, Omar Tello. Omar now helps others to reforest their land and Maria Jose Iturralde of the NGO Humans for Abundance finances the projects to provide income to farmers for the loss of revenue from reforesting their land…
Ethiopia not only successfully restored soil productivity, but reforested 2700 hectares without planting a single tree!!
Africa is planting a great wall of trees spanning across the entire continent; 8,000 kilometres long and 15 kilometres wide,. The project, The Great Green Wall began in 2007 and its benefits are already transforming peoples lives…
In 1986 the city of Aksu in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region began planting trees to protect the city from sand storms that plagued the city. Today, the dust storms have been reduced in intensity and occurrence to around 20 times a year. The region has also become a large scale producers of apples and other produce.
The transformation ofcold, barren desert into a lush green forest.
The amount of land lost every year to desertification and drought is staggering. Take a minute to learn more…