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S2E38: Singapore’s green paradox: Planting trees while losing forest cover
Our hosts try to make sense of conflicting developments in this city state.
Synopsis: Every first and third Tuesday of the month, The Straits Times provides you with a South-east Asian perspective to global environmental challenges.
Trees can keep urban environments cool, and Singapore has been leveraging this “superpower” of nature by expanding its tree-planting efforts. There is a plan to plant a million trees across the country by 2030, while organisations are rolling out microforests and skyrise greenery to beautify and cool down concrete environments.
Yet, at the same time…
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