S3 Ep 10 - Trees Change the Future
Xploration Earth 2050
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22m
Environmental bad guys beware! Trees are now safer thanks to new satellite imagery giving us a view of our planet like we’ve never had before. We now know how many trees are on Earth and, almost in real-time, can tell who’s cutting them down. Chuck Pell samples a new kind of tree, one that’s built in a lab and designed to stop global warming.
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