800,000 People Attempt to Plant 50 Million Trees to Break Guinness World Record

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Jul 12, 2016, 9:59 am36 pts
More than 800,000 people turned out Monday in India to plant trees in hopes of breaking a world record. Uttar Pradesh officials distributed 50 million tree saplings across the state to help India increase its forest cover and to break the Guinness World record for the number of trees planted in 24 hours—which…

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