{"id":87907,"date":"2019-02-18T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T22:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/heres-a-simple-thing-we-can-do-to-cancel-out-years-of-co2-emissions"},"modified":"2019-02-18T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T22:04:14","slug":"heres-a-simple-thing-we-can-do-to-cancel-out-years-of-co2-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/heres-a-simple-thing-we-can-do-to-cancel-out-years-of-co2-emissions","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s a Simple Thing We Can Do to Cancel Out Years of CO2 Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-a-simple-thing-we-can-do-to-cancel-out-years-of-co2-emissions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An ambitious new analysis of the world\u2019s forests found that there\u2019s space to plant 1.2 trillion new trees \u2014 a number that would <a href=\"https:\/\/eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-02\/ez-pcc021119.php\">absorb more carbon<\/a> than human emissions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new data, ETH Zurich researcher Thomas Crowther <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/forests-climate-change-co2-greenhouse-gases-trillion-trees-global-warming-a8782071.html\">told The Independent<\/a>, trees are \u201cour most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crowther told <em>The Independent<\/em> that the new analysis, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/aaas.confex.com\/aaas\/2019\/meetingapp.cgi\/Paper\/23744\">presented at a conference<\/a> this weekend, suggests that a worldwide tree-planting spree would have a greater impact on the planet\u2019s environment than building wind turbines or vegetarian diets \u2014 an effort, he says, that could cancel a decade of greenhouse emissions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-how-many-trees-we-need-to-grow-to-cancel-out-co2-emissions\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-how-many-trees-we-need-t...-emissions<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ambitious new analysis of the world\u2019s forests found that there\u2019s space to plant 1.2 trillion new trees \u2014 a number that would absorb more carbon than human emissions. According to the new data, ETH Zurich researcher Thomas Crowther told The Independent, trees are \u201cour most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change.\u201d Crowther [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87907","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=87907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}