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Portland, Oregon Has Saved Lives By Planting 50,000 Trees

From 1990 to 2019, Portland undertook a mass tree-planting programme. Scientists wanted to find out whether it had any health impact so they compared the number of trees in a given area with mortality rates. In areas with more trees, heart disease deaths were 6% lower. That’s an even bigger impact than taking statins, a heart disease medicine.

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