{"id":87835,"date":"2019-02-17T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/research-planting-trillions-of-trees-could-cancel-out-co2-emissions"},"modified":"2019-02-17T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T18:22:37","slug":"research-planting-trillions-of-trees-could-cancel-out-co2-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/research-planting-trillions-of-trees-could-cancel-out-co2-emissions","title":{"rendered":"Research: Planting Trillions of Trees Could Cancel Out CO2 Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-planting-trillions-of-trees-could-cancel-out-co2-emissions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike high tech solutions to climate change like carbon capture systems, Crowther argued, trees are nice because anyone can plant one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful thing because everyone can get involved,\u201d he told <em><i>The Independent<\/i><\/em>. \u201cTrees literally just make people happier in urban environments, they improve air quality, water quality, food quality, ecosystem service, it\u2019s such an easy, tangible thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/forests-climate-change-co2-greenhouse-gases-trillion-trees-global-warming-a8782071.html\">Massive restoration of world\u2019s forests would cancel out a decade of CO2 emissions, analysis suggests<\/a> [<i>The Independent<\/i>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/planting-trillions-trees-cancel-co2-emissions\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/planting-trillions-trees-cancel-co2-emissions\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike high tech solutions to climate change like carbon capture systems, Crowther argued, trees are nice because anyone can plant one. \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful thing because everyone can get involved,\u201d he told The Independent. \u201cTrees literally just make people happier in urban environments, they improve air quality, water quality, food quality, ecosystem service, it\u2019s such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}