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Street trees, research shows, can help reduce air pollution – the single biggest threat to human health, especially in urban areas, according to the World Health Organization – by filtering fine particulate matter, such as that emitted by internal-combustion engines.
Of course, the benefits of planting trees are highly localized.
Moreover, planting trees in lower-income, under-resourced neighborhoods, which often have less canopy cover, can help to mitigate environmental inequality.
That is why my organization, The Nature Conservancy, is working with other nonprofits, community organizers, and public-health researchers in Louisville, Kentucky, to plant more trees in areas with low canopy cover, and to conduct the first controlled trial of trees as a medical intervention.
Consider Finland, a Nordic country endowed with many trees for its small population.
Scientists blame the rapid spread of the disease – which suffocates trees by coating their leaves – on climate change.
By comparison, replacing blighted coffee trees with rust-resistant varieties would cost an estimated $1 billion.
The IDB program offers long-term loans for replacement of coffee trees to small-scale farmers who traditionally have little or no access to financing of any kind.
Farmers who tend their new trees well can triple their coffee output in three years.
Black Bears and Television JunkiesThis summer, friends who live a few kilometers from us in rural Montana in the western US had to interrupt their dinner when a black bear suddenly came out of the trees.
So far, about 3,500 hectares have been planted with trees or put under improved soil-management practices.
Trees and plants, sensing spring, started to blossom; birds were just as confused.
Yet, in India, the printed word on pulped trees remains an amazingly healthy industry.
Countries like PNG would thus be doubly better off if they cut down their ancient hardwood trees and replanted.
Whether it is through low-energy housing, planting trees, teaching children to respect the environment, boycotting incandescent lightbulbs, or wrapping gifts in old newspapers, we have the opportunity to lead by example.
Their research looked at how much we could help the planet by setting different levels of carbon taxes, planting more trees, cutting methane, reducing black soot emissions, adapting to global warming, or focusing on a technological solution to climate change.
When the trees are cut and peatlands drained, the carbon accumulated over millennia is exposed and oxidized – often in the form of fires that envelope neighboring Singapore and Malaysia in smoke.
Economists have long studied the economics of superstars in fields where a company can lever enormously the decisions of a small number of individuals, making them valuable in a way that someone who can, say, chop down trees like the legendary Paul Bunyan, is not.
In fact, there is a beautifully simple action that municipal leaders can take to reduce both extreme heat and air pollution: plant more trees.
Trees and other vegetation naturally cool the air around them by shading surfaces and releasing water vapor.
Given that the most significant effects of trees are highly localized, we found that densely populated megacities in Pakistan, India, and other parts of South and Southeast Asia would benefit most.
The highly localized effects of trees mean that planting them can provide highly targeted benefits, even in cities that ostensibly have plenty of green space.
Trees can even be used as a natural screen against pollution from highways or industrial areas.
All of these strategies have a part to play; trees alone won’t solve all of our heat and air-quality issues.
Trees also offer a host of other benefits for cities.
There is also a growing body of research showing that exposure to trees and other vegetation has a positive effect on mental health, especially for children.
All of these co-benefits speak to the wisdom of greater investment in trees and urban green infrastructure such as parks and rain gardens.
Examples of how this can be done include terracing to prevent soil loss and degradation through erosion and flooding; radically reducing tillage; rotating crops and applying natural fertilizers – manure, compost, or mulch – to improve soil structure and fertility; and integrating trees with crops and livestock in agro-forestry systems.
A safe nature-based option for enhancing the biosphere’s carbon uptake would be to increase the number of trees on the planet.
Corpses of historic figures, such as Zhang Zhidong, a high-ranking official in the Qing Dynasty, were exhumed, with the decaying bodies left hanging in trees.
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