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Why should the Scottish woodlands be protected?

AGreenLiving

Planting trees encourages the absorption of carbon dioxide, one of the key greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Soil quality and quantity are maintained. Besides conserving the forest, its wildlife , soil and landscape, trees are imperative for the maintenance of local water resources.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. ranked third globally in forest cover lost to fires. Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West. The implications extend nationwide. Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S. As authors Otis Parrish and Kent G.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

The citing of concerns over its potentially inflationary effects was widely seen as a convenient cover story that allowed Manchin to torpedo a vast array of measures that would have curbed fossil fuel production. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2.