What's at stake if we can't regrow our forests

Short Wave by NPR

Oct 15, 202613:35Science & Medicine

In 2022, parachutist Luigi Cani dropped 100 million seeds over the Amazon rainforest while skydiving. He did it to raise awareness about deforestation and help regrow the forest. But there has been little scientific foll...

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