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Our latest experiments with Semi-Automatic Local Content (Salco) show we are now able to cut the cloth or data at scale. This summer we published dozens of versions of a story about tree planting, all ...

Tree planting is very strenuous and seriously tough. Tree planters can walk on average 16-17km and sometimes plant around 1,600 trees a day per day. Workers can expend the caloric equivalent of a ...

This spring, the challenging task of afforestation at the edge of the Mu Us Desert in northern China takes on a futuristic feel, with drones soaring through the air, transporting seedlings across vast ...

At age 9, Felix Finkbeiner planted his first tree. He had just learned about Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading an effort to plant 30 million trees in Africa.

From Greta Thunberg to Donald Trump and airlines to oil companies, everyone is suddenly going crazy for trees. The UK government has pledged to plant millions a year while other countries have schemes ...