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Cleaning the air boosts forests’ cooling powers

Planting trees has a stronger effect on local temperature if air pollution is curbed.
Two people use hand tools and a digger to prepare the soil and plant trees in China.

Tree planting in China, where cuts to air pollution could further increase the cooling effects of forests. Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing/Getty

Reducing air pollution isn’t just good for public health — it can also help trees to cool the local climate1.

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Nature 621, 11 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02677-4

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  1. Ge, J. et al. Nature Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01251-x (2023).

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