Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The Philippines wants to make planting trees a graduation requirement - Popular Science

The Philippines wants to make planting trees a graduation requirement  Popular Science

Maintaining that greenery will likely prove challenging. One member of the Pterocarpus tree species in bloom. Deposit Photos You don’t need to be a Shel Silverstein superfan to know that trees offer many gifts. Our wooden neighbors sequester carbon, a climate-altering greenhouse gas. Even the smallest sapling filters the air, taking in particulate matter pollution and releasing life-giving oxygen. Trees even cool things down; together, shade and evapotranspiration (where water moves from Earth to the atmosphere via evaporation) can cool summer air up to 9 degrees. That’s why legislators in ...



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