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GARDEN CLIPPINGS: Interesting facts about trees

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23.12.2025

Trees are our lifeline. 

Perhaps their greatest benefit to us is keeping the air clean. Trees pull carbon from the atmosphere and through the process of photosynthesis, trees absorb air pollutants and release clean oxygen.   

Trees provide habitat and food for wildlife, keep the earth cool by providing shade, stabilize soil and are a food and medicine source for you and me.   

Forests cover nearly a third of the world’s land mass. About half of that area remains undisturbed and untouched. More than half of the world’s forests are found in the large countries of Russia, Canada, U.S., China and Brazil.   

We are improving. Years ago, when the world began to........

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