{"id":5141,"date":"2019-09-06T10:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"grow-your-own-forest-how-to-plant-trees-to-help-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/06\/grow-your-own-forest-how-to-plant-trees-to-help-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow Your Own Forest: How To Plant Trees To Help Save The Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By The\nGuardian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tree planting \u2018has mind-blowing potential\u2019 to tackle the climate crisis.\u201d That\u2019s how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/jul\/04\/planting-billions-trees-best-tackle-climate-crisis-scientists-canopy-emissions\">the Guardian reported<\/a> findings from the Crowther Lab in Switzerland two months ago. Billions of more trees, scientists claimed, could remove two-thirds of all the carbon dioxide created by human activity. Forest restoration \u201cisn\u2019t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,\u201d said the lead scientist, climate change ecologist Tom Crowther.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such a program might take 100 years to be fully effective, but along the way, it would reduce the consequences of the climate crisis \u2013 protecting soil from erosion, reducing the risk of flooding and providing habitats for a vast range of animals and other plant species. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/sep\/04\/grow-your-own-forest-how-to-plant-trees-to-help-save-the-planet\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Guardian Tree planting \u2018has mind-blowing potential\u2019 to tackle the climate crisis.\u201d That\u2019s how\u00a0the Guardian reported findings from the Crowther Lab in Switzerland two months ago. Billions of more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}