Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

Still, the Amazon covers a land area roughly twice the size of India , and is among the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, with over 3 million species of flora and fauna. But deforestation has slowly eaten away at its edges, and drought and fire have limited rainforests’ ability to withstand extreme temperatures.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

The name of global environmental charity One Tree Planted seems excessively modest now, as they’ve just finished planting 80,000 trees in Africa. This program fits in with a country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030. Rwanda got 60,000 new trees, and Kenya got 20,000. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

What provides habitat for half the world’s known plants and animals, is a vital component of biodiversity and an important economic crop? Logging, invasive pests, disease, forest clearance and other types of habitat loss all threaten tree species. Nor is climate change helping.

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