Trees: Tree Truths
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Why do we need trees? Find out on Science Trek!
Trees do more than make our world pretty. They are essential to life, providing us with oxygen, cleaning our water and air, protecting our soil and giving homes to 80 percent of the plants and land animals on Earth.
Science Trek is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by the 360 Immersive, the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Trees: Tree Truths
Special | 5m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Trees do more than make our world pretty. They are essential to life, providing us with oxygen, cleaning our water and air, protecting our soil and giving homes to 80 percent of the plants and land animals on Earth.
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