Can planting trees solve the climate crisis?

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BBC

Science, Technology

4.8 • 985 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Our question this week comes from a father and his two young boys. They want to know whether it’s possible to plant enough trees to soak up all the extra carbon we are putting into the atmosphere? The quest to find answers takes us to a remote reforestation project in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania which could be a model for other projects looking to tackle the climate crisis through reforestation. We speak to experts to find out how much tree planting and reforestation can do in helping combat the climate crisis. Presenter: Caroline Steel Producer: Margaret Sessa-Hawkins Editor: Richard Collings

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0:33.0	Okay. We are in a, what's it called again?
0:35.0	Okay. We are in a...
0:40.0	What's it called again?
0:42.0	What are we in?
0:43.0	It's a new TV.
0:45.0	We're in a new TV.
0:46.0	So we're in a sort of...
0:47.0	I don't know.
0:50.0	I'd say it's like a...
0:52.0	Gold carte in structure but designed to handle these ridiculous
0:58.9	roads which we're driving along in the mountains to get to a really, really remote bit of forest.
1:06.0	You're listening to crowd science on the BBC World Service.
1:09.0	I'm Caroline Steele and this is the sound of me, my producer Margaret and a conservation scientist
1:14.7	driving literally up the side of a mountain in Romania.
1:18.3	I have to admit the drive was difficult.
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