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We calculated how much money trees save for your city

  • Written by Theodore Endreny, Professor of Water Resources & Ecological Engineering, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
For a megacity, Tokyo is rich in trees.gillyberlin/flickr, CC BY-SA

Megacities are on the rise. There are currently 47 such areas around the globe, each housing more than 10 million residents.

More than half the global population now lives in urban areas, comprising about 3 percent of the Earth. The ecological footprint of this growth is vast and...

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