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Couple Plants 2.7 Million Trees Over 20 Years To Restore Brazilian Forest

Photo via Intelligent Living Article by Andrea D. Steffen, Intelligent Living A couple of people can literally make a whole forest of a difference! That’s what renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado have proven. With the help of many, they planted 2.7...

Climate Change And Deforestation Mean Earth’s Trees Are Younger And Shorter

Photo by Circe Denyer from PublicDomainPictures.net, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Nathan Rott, NPR The forests of today will not be the forests of tomorrow. Rising temperatures, deforestation, development and climate-induced disasters are transforming the very makeup of Earth's forests, new research published in the journal Science finds. Older,...

Indians plant 220 million trees in single day

Photo Rajesh Kumar Singh via AP Photo Article by Biswajeet Banerjee via Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — More than a million Indians planted 220 million trees on Friday in a government campaign to tackle climate change and improve the environment in the country's most populous state. Forest official...

Huge new study will track effects of screen time on kids’ brains

Photo via MaxPixel (Public Domain) Article by Katherine Martinko, via TreeHugger Already the National Institutes of Health has found "significant differences" in the brains of children who spend excessive time online. Anywhere you go, you will see children and teens with tablets or smartphones in their hands. Riding...