Episode 3

Till I Learned: Climate - Trees and Carbon

SUMMARY

In this episode of The Carbon Connection, we learn about the relationship between trees and carbon dioxide with professor Charles Harvey, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. How much carbon can be stored in a forest?

Explore past episodes of TILclimate at https://environmentalsolutions.mit.edu/tilclimate-podcast. 

To listen to other episodes in the network like the Generation Carbon episode about plants created specifically for kids ages 6-10, visit thecarbonalmanac.org/podcasts. 

And for more details on this topic and all things carbon, visit thecarbonalmanac.org/footnotes.

CONTRIBUTORS

Special Acknowledgment: Laur Hesse Fisher, Host, Today I Learned: Climate and the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative.

Episode Producer: Lori Sullivan

Editor: Tania Marien

Production Team: Dr. Lynda M. Ulrich, Olabanji Stephen

Senior Producer: Tania Marien

Supervising Producer: Jennifer Myers Chua

Music: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, Musicbed

Episode Art: Jennifer Myers Chua

Network Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

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