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The Tree-mendous Handbook

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1. What Trees Do For Us

When we breathe out we release

carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air.

Trees suck in this CO2 and breathe

out oxygen in exchange. It’s a pretty

sweet deal!

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There are lots of other natural

processes which create CO2, but

some of the things we do, like

driving cars, farming, and burning

fossil fuels for energy, are releasing

CO2 and other “greenhouse gases”

into the atmosphere at an alarming

rate, and this is causing the planet

to heat up.

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