{"id":5262,"date":"2019-09-12T09:39:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T06:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"from-heatwaves-to-rising-seas-how-trees-defend-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/12\/from-heatwaves-to-rising-seas-how-trees-defend-us\/","title":{"rendered":"From Heatwaves To Rising Seas: How Trees Defend Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By UN\nEnvironment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is common knowledge that planting trees tackle the causes of climate change by absorbing carbon emissions. Less known is the fact that forests also treat the symptoms of climate change, whether they are heatwaves, drought or crumbling coastal towns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s how. The outsize potential of trees to halt the\nclimate crisis has generated a lot of media buzz recently, and rightly so \u2013\ntrees have an enormous capacity to absorb carbon emissions. Yet something\ncrucial is missing from these stories. Forests don\u2019t just absorb carbon; they\nalso defend us from its most devastating impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heatwaves have been scorching India and Europe this\nsummer, killing dozens of people. This July was the hottest month ever\nrecorded, while the previous month was the hottest June on record. But as our\nair-conditioning systems were incessantly, providing much-needed respite from\nthe stifling heat, they guzzle masses of fossil fuels, which in turn heats the\nplanet. Our houses may stay cool, but the planet doesn\u2019t. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/opinion\/heatwaves-rising-seas-how-trees-defend-us\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment It is common knowledge that planting trees tackle the causes of climate change by absorbing carbon emissions. Less known is the fact that forests also treat the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5263,"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-5262","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\/5262","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=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}