{"id":90118,"date":"2019-04-29T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T23:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-could-cancel-out-a-decade-of-co2-emissions-scientists-find"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T23:42:46","slug":"planting-1-2-trillion-trees-could-cancel-out-a-decade-of-co2-emissions-scientists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-could-cancel-out-a-decade-of-co2-emissions-scientists-find","title":{"rendered":"Planting 1.2 Trillion Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions, Scientists Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-could-cancel-out-a-decade-of-co2-emissions-scientists-find.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is enough room in the world\u2019s existing parks, forests, and abandoned land to plant 1.2 trillion additional trees, which would have the CO2 storage capacity to cancel out a decade of carbon dioxide emissions, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-02\/ez-pcc021119.php\">new analysis<\/a> by ecologist Thomas Crowther and colleagues at ETH Zurich, a Swiss university.<\/p>\n<p>The research, <a href=\"https:\/\/eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-02\/ez-pcc021119.php\">presented<\/a> at this year\u2019s American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington, D.C., argues that planting additional trees is one of the most effective ways to reduce greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>Trees are \u201cour most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change,\u201d Crowther <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/forests-climate-change-co2-greenhouse-gases-trillion-trees-global-warming-a8782071.html\">told <em>The Independent<\/em><\/a>. Combining forest inventory data from 1.2 million locations around the world and satellite images, the scientists estimate there are 3 trillion trees on Earth \u2014 seven times more than previous estimates. But they also found that there is abundant space to restore millions of acres of additional forests, not counting urban and agricultural land.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/digest\/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-could-cancel-out-a-decade-of-co2-emissions-scientists-find\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is enough room in the world\u2019s existing parks, forests, and abandoned land to plant 1.2 trillion additional trees, which would have the CO2 storage capacity to cancel out a decade of carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new analysis by ecologist Thomas Crowther and colleagues at ETH Zurich, a Swiss university. The research, presented [\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-90118","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\/90118","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=90118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}