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11:29
Can Planting Billions of Trees Halt Climate Change?
By CNBC
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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….

03:19
Turkey Breaks World Tree-Planting Record
By TRT World
Tree planting

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….

10:46
One Man’s Mission to Revive the Last Redwood Forests
By National Geographic
Tree planting

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…

18:25
TED, How Trees Talk to Each Other/ Suzanne Simard
By TED
Tree planting

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

01:12
China’s First Forest City
By BBC News
Tree planting

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.