How does planting trees help this global problem of high carbon levels?
Trees are green machines that act as natural filters of the air. Through the process of photosynthesis they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in their trunk, branches, leaves, roots, soil and foliage, while releasing oxygen back out into the atmosphere. Each tree will absorb about 500kg of CO2 over its lifetime! Therefore a simple and easy solution to reducing and neutralising carbon emissions is planting trees.
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