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At a sauna in Peckham, south London, young professionals sit on scorching hot, wood-panelled benches, dressed in swimming trunks and bathing suits.

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With fewer new trees, the report found that the trunks and branches of dead trees - known as woody biomass - became carbon emitters, rather than carbon absorbers, about 25 years ago.

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Trees store carbon dioxide in their trunks and branches as they grow but release the gas into the atmosphere when they die.

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They laid sprinkler lines and wrapped the trunks of some of the hulking trees with a fire-resistant material akin to tin foil.

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To imitate human heat and thus deceive Ukrainian thermal imaging cameras, their trunks are wrapped with heating wire underneath the jacket.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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