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Joined December 2023
One mature tree absorbs about 22 kg of CO₂ a year. Plant 1,000 trees and that's 22 tonnes pulled from the air, every year, for decades. Small seeds. Big math. 🌱
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In 2005, scientists planted a date palm seed that was 2,000 years old. It sprouted. Nature plays the long game. 🌴
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Mangroves can store up to 4x more carbon per acre than tropical rainforests. They also protect coastlines from storms and nurse baby fish. The most underrated tree on the planet. 🌊
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Hyperion, a coast redwood in California, stands about 380 feet tall. That's taller than the Statue of Liberty, pedestal included. And it started as a seed smaller than a tomato seed. 🌲
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Some bamboo grows up to 35 inches in a single day. You could literally watch it grow. The fastest carbon-capturing plant on Earth is also a grass. 🎍
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Stressed trees make noise. Scientists recorded drought-struck plants emitting ultrasonic clicks, basically screams, too high for human ears. The forest is a lot louder than you think. 🌳
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Trees can cool a city street by up to 9°F, no electricity required. The cheapest AC ever built is a tree. We plant them at @treemissions. Follow for more nature facts that'll change how you see the world. 🌳
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Earth has about 3 trillion trees, down from about 6 trillion before the rise of human civilisation. Humans cut down ~15 billion every year. That's roughly 28,000 trees a minute. That is why it's vital we plant them and do all that we can to prevent deforestation. 🌱
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Forests absorb more CO₂ every year than the entire United States emits. We don't need to invent a miracle machine. We need to stop deleting the one we already have. 🌍 🌳
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A bristlecone pine in California named Methuselah is 4,800+ years old. It was already alive when the Great Pyramid was being built. It's still growing today. 🌳
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One tree can absorb ~22 kg of CO₂ a year. Plant 1,000 and you've built a clean air machine that runs on sunlight, costs almost nothing, and gets better with age. The best climate technology ever invented is a seed. 🌱
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Trees talk to each other. Underground fungal networks let them share sugar, send warnings about pests, and even feed their dying neighbors. The "wood wide web" has been running for 400 million years. We invented the internet 40 years ago. 🌳
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The Amazon makes its own rain. Trees release so much moisture that they create ~50% of the region's rainfall. Cut enough of them down and the forest doesn't just shrink. It stops being able to make the water it needs to survive.
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It looks like a forest. It's not. One single banyan tree in India. 3,000+ aerial roots. 5 acres. One organism. Nature is just showing off.
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Trees aren’t built from dirt.Up to 95% of a dry tree’s mass comes from the air — CO₂ turned into solid wood through photosynthesis.That giant oak? Mostly solidified sky.Plant a tree = turn thin air into carbon storage. #TreeVolution #BreatheEasy
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The Amazon has a second river you can't see. 🌳 It flows through the sky, powered by trees, carrying about as much water as the Amazon River itself. Cut the trees and the river stops. Why not plant some? @treemissions
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Trees don't just grow in the water cycle, they run it. Follow for more nature facts that sound fake but aren't
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A single living tree can host up to ONE TRILLION microbes inside its wood alone. Distinct communities thrive in the heartwood and sapwood—tiny ecosystems powering the forest from within. Nature’s secret cities, one trunk at a time. 🌳
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Earth's oceans produce more than half of the oxygen you breathe, mostly from microscopic plankton. Every second breath you take, you owe to something too small to see.
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Trees can't run from danger, so they scream. When drought-stressed or chopped down trees emit ultrasonic clicks that we can't hear. We've been walking through forests full of silent cries for help. 🌱
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