Seoul’s ginkgo trees help absorb carbon dioxide emitted by traffic
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Becoming Earth
Ferris Jabr (Picador (UK), Penguin Random House (US))
Ginkgo trees were first planted in Seoul about 800 years ago, and today there are more than 100,000 of these giant trees, absorbing carbon dioxide from urban traffic and emitting the oxygen humans need to live — a coexistence we’re familiar with, but which embodies principles that go beyond our everyday experience.
in The birth of the Earth: How our planet came into beingScience writer Ferris Jabr weaves a tale of complex relationships between…
