In an ambitious plan to counter this deforestation ... If they couldn't cut the trees for wood, some said, then new trees should produce fruit, which could be sold to buy wood.

Under current deforestation ... tree species can be considered threatened, an international team of researchers reports November 20 in Science Advances. A quarter of the 15,200 tree species ...

The expansion of farming, and to a lesser degree mining and logging, has led to high levels of deforestation ... chose from a selection of fruit, crop or ornamental trees. By noon on Friday ...

Ethiopia's government launched the £1.1bn tree planting project earlier this year to tackle deforestation and climate ... but there were also fruit trees such as the avocado.