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Forests are important because they are vital carbon sinks that help regulate the climate. The total amount of carbon on Earth is constant, but it moves around and changes form. Burning fossil fuels which have stored huge amounts of carbon below the earth’s surface for millennia, converts the carbon to carbon dioxide.

One of the most basic ways to overcome this is to plant more trees. A tree absorbs carbon during photosynthesis and stores it in the wood for the life of the tree, so the tree acts as a carbon sink.

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