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Forest #trees and #microbes choreograph their hunt for a balanced diet under elevated CO2 birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/for

"In conditions mimicking a future atmosphere, 180-year-old #EnglishOaks traded-off do it yourself ways to access nutrients with outsourcing to #soil microbes... a 63% increase in the release of a cocktail of small organic molecules early in spring and autumn, which prime soil microbes to release nutrients... a 17% increase in the amount of symbiotic root-associated #fungi in autumn"

Everyone knows this. It's been obvious since the dawn of time that it's cooler underneath trees. It hardly takes "professors", "scientists" or "experts" and yet people are still chopping down trees and covering more of the earth with concrete. More and more green land is becoming housing estates because it's 'cheaper' than developing brownfield sites. It's just not sustainable. #ClimateChange

BBC News: Plant #trees to tackle deadly #heatwaves, say experts

bbc.com/news/articles/c0l4j8wk

Two women sitting under tree shade on a noticeably hot day in a park in green and white striped deckchairs. The woman on the left has dark hair and sunglasses and appears to be asleep, with her right arm rest above her head on top of the deckchair. The woman on the right is blonde and is also wearing sunglasses and is looking at her phone.
www.bbc.comClimate change could see more trees in cities to tackle heatwavesScientists say air temperatures could be reduced by 5C by planting more trees.