PLANTING ANCIENT TREES TO HELP THE PLANET

[URBAN FARMING]

"A team led by a nurseryman from northern Michigan and his sons has raced against time for two decades, snipping branches from some of the world's biggest and most durable trees with plans to produce clones that could restore ancient forests and help fight climate change."... "Archangel has an inventory of several thousand clones in various stages of growth that were taken from more than 70 redwoods and giant sequoias. NASA engineer Steve Craft, who helped arrange for David Milarch, co-founder of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, to address an agency gathering, said research shows that those species hold much more carbon than other varieties."

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