{"id":3720,"date":"2025-03-19T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/?post_type=news&p=3720"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:37:18","slug":"l-a-trees-are-kicking-ass-urban-plants-capture-more-co2-than-expected-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/public-exchange.org\/usc\/news\/l-a-trees-are-kicking-ass-urban-plants-capture-more-co2-than-expected-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018L.A. trees are kicking ass.\u2019 Urban plants capture more CO2 than expected, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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News<\/span> | <\/span>L.A. Times<\/span> | <\/span>March 2025<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

\u2018L.A. trees are kicking ass.\u2019 Urban plants capture more CO2 than expected, study finds<\/h1>\n\n\n

Give it up for Los Angeles\u2019 urban trees<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new study found they\u2019re surprisingly good at absorbing the carbon dioxide we spew into the air with all our cars, energy consumption and corporate industrialization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers from USC\u2019s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences\u00a0published their findings\u00a0in the journal \u201cEnvironmental Science & Technology\u201d last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using an array of sensors set up across a swath of central L.A., the team tracked CO2 emissions during an 18-month period. Over the course of a year, trees absorbed up to 60% of CO2 emissions on average during daytime, according to the study \u2014 significantly more than expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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