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...With an amused eye roll, Sarah points out that the tree has so far decided to grow sideways instead of vertically....
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...And, in another corner, are piles of coffins, heavily skewed towards models using fast-growing willow, cardboard and other low-carbon, biodegradable materials....
...Our big Pocket Handkerchief tree, the Davidia I never planted personally, was already in flower....
...Lawmakers in Brasília are advancing a bill that would establish a “cap-and-trade” system, in which projects that would reduce or remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — such as tree planting — would...
...using carbon stored in soil to offset emissions smacks of the existing nature-based carbon offset market, under which multinationals seeking to reduce their net emissions buy up carbon offsets generated by tree-planting...
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