The Importance of Trees and Nature

The project explores the importance of trees in regulating our planet and what nature can teach us about how to design and build our infrastructure and systems.

Useful resources and links

Giant trees have a towering role in protecting forests – The Guardian

Earth’s trees total three trillion – BBC

How trees defined America – Smithsonian

Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon – The Guardian

Covid tells world from indigenous peoples have been saying for years – National Observer

Covid-19 – lessons from the Yanomami

Forests overlooked as allies in fight against global poverty – Reuters

Why the pandemic is not a natural disaster – The New Yorker

Nature as an engine of recovery in a post-Covid world

How forest bathing can make us feel better – The Guardian