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I'm Will Tingle.

This week we're taking a look at trees.

How do they communicate?

What diseases do they suffer from?

And why it is so very important to get it right when we plant them. All engine running, absolutely genius.

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despite rampant deforestation in the last 10,000 Despite rampant

deforestation in the last 10,000 years, there are still around about 400

trees for every one of the 8 billion people on Earth.

They occupy every continent on Earth except for Antarctica.

The tallest is almost the same height as the Great Pyramid at Giza, the smallest is about the

size of a golf tee.

But such massive diversity in distribution and size begs the question,

what do they all have in common? What makes a tree a tree?

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