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Ethiopians have planted about 350m trees in a single day as part of a national effort to tackle the climate crisis and deforestation.
The aim is to grow 4bn new trees by getting every citizen to plant at least 40 seedlings over the summer.
Public offices reportedly closed to enable civil servants to take part in the initiative, which broke India's record of most trees planted in a day (50m). Ethiopia's forest coverage shrank from 35% in the 1900s to just 4% in the 2000s.