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The Importance of Trees in Urban Environments
TLDR Trees in cities have numerous benefits, including regulating temperature, reducing energy usage, filtering air pollutants, and storing carbon dioxide. However, they also release volatile organic compounds that can contribute to smog. Overall, increasing the number of trees in urban areas can help mitigate global warming and improve the climate.
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Trees are not only beautiful, but also functional, and they are abundant in Atlanta, Georgia, creating a city in a forest.
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Trees serve a function beyond just providing oxygen, they can also affect the climate by helping to regulate temperature.
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Trees can affect the climate by lowering temperatures, reducing energy usage, and removing air pollutants through a process called evapotranspiration.
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Deciduous trees are recommended for planting to the west and south of a house because they provide shade in the summer and allow sunlight through in the winter, while evergreen trees like magnolias and pines can be more problematic.
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Trees in cities help counteract the heat island effect by providing passive energy savings, filtering air pollutants, removing CO2 through photosynthesis, and storing carbon dioxide in the forest soil for thousands of years. However, trees also release volatile organic compounds, such as terpenes and isoprenes, which can contribute to photochemical smog.
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Trees release volatile organic compounds that can accelerate the production of smog, but other than that, trees have many positive effects and can help mitigate global warming.
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Doubling the amount of forests, especially boreal forests, could lower the global temperature by one degree Fahrenheit and increase summer rains by 10 to 15% by 2071.
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