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UNBELIEVABLE: Planting more trees in cities could have saved 1 1 million lives in two decades study suggests | History Defined

Trees in cities aren’t just a ‘nice-to-have’; they have a huge bearing on public health by keeping us cooler.

A new study has calculated that increasing vegetation in urban areas by 30 per cent could have prevented more than one third of all global heat-related deaths between 2000 to 2019. In total, 1.16 million lives may have been saved with more greenery during this 20-year period.

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