✣ Pollution protection
Trees act as a barrier between people and harmful gases and particulates. They absorb dangerous pollutants through their leaves, breaking the toxic gases down safely. One tree reduces pollution around it by 20%. And a row of trees in your garden or street can help reduce pollution outdoors and inside your home by 50%.
✣ Carbon capture
Trees are an important part of our efforts to be carbon net zero by 2050. They trap and seal away carbon, holding it in their branches and roots.
✣ Cooling effects
Aside from giving us shade, trees help reduce the temperature by evaporating water from the soil through their leaves. According to urban tree planters Green Blue, one mature tree in an urban setting acts like 10 room-sized air conditioners.
✣ Immune boosters
Trees release airborne phytoncides…
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Woman's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 15-Mar-2022