White Rose Forest - a volunteer-led initiative set up to improve the West Yorkshire landscape by planting trees - has expanded into North Yorkshire.
These include planting 60 coconut trees - scaled back from 100 - leveling a pair of dunes and clearing weeds.
Lead researcher Professor Yosef Schlein said planting mosquito-attracting trees or bushes in suitable habitats, and spraying them with oral insecticide, could provide a relatively easy and cheap way to tackle the problem of malaria.
Key issues of contention remain, including how strictly the protocol's requirements will be applied, and the extent to which the planting of pollution-absorbing trees - so-called carbon sinks - can be used to meet targets.
Wesley Brumback rhapsodizes about planting 350 bare-root orange trees in two days, seeing bald eagles dive for fish in the grove's reservoirs and watching trailers roll out with his fruit.
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At the Sabah Al-Ahmad nature reserve, environmental remediation has involved planting trees and building ponds to bring back wildlife, resulting in a flourishing desert ecosystem.
Atlanta's business leaders have recognized that improving the quality of life, whether by reducing drive time, planting trees or cleaning up the polluted Chattahoochee River, is in their self-interest, he said.
It will involve planting 16, 000 trees such as oak, birch and rowan in a 25-hectare wood.
Other similar projects to save the world: generating electricity from rice husks in Cambodia, planting tens of millions of eucalyptus trees in the Amazon (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) and transforming waste into cooking fuel in Nepal.
The project includes planting more trees, restoring wetlands, building natural dams in streams and reducing water run-off from fields.
For over 20 years now, the Foundation has provided thousands of grants to schools and environmental organizations that promote hands-on environmental education such as gardens in schools, recycling programs, restoring wetlands, planting trees, and testing and monitoring water quality.
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Carbon-emissions trading is becoming increasingly widespread within the industry, as is carbon off-setting, the latter involving passengers paying a voluntary surcharge to help finance the planting of trees or other green projects and so balance out the environmental damage caused by their journey.
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