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Forests, health and climate change

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Article Published 19 Dec 2011 Last modified 18 Jul 2023

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Photo: © Manh Ngoc Nguyen, Well with Nature /EEA

Forests are essential to our survival and well-being. Forests clean our air, our water, our soil and they regulate our climate, amongst many other things. Trees and forests are not always associated with urban landscapes. However, there too they provide invaluable, often invisible, services. Simply by acting as 'green oasis' in our concrete jungles, they offer recreation and health services for many European citizens.