Deforestation

 The International Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body that assesses science related to climate change, suggests that there remains only about 10 years left to prevent the catastrophic effects of global warming. In 2019, 43 billion tons of CO2 was released by humans into the atmosphere.

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Planting trees is currently the best way to capture and store carbon. But it will take planting many, many billions of trees each year. While drones and aerial mapping have been used to address reforestation, there are ways in which this technology can be improved and optimized, to better address the problem of reforestation.