Posted by: Sandy Steinman | August 9, 2019

Restoring Forests Could Help Put a Brake on Global Warming, Study Finds 

The  New York Times  reported on planting more trees could have a positive impact on slowing global warming

They concluded that the planet could support nearly 2.5 billion additional acres of forest without shrinking our cities and farms, and that those additional trees, when they mature, could store a whole lot of the extra carbon — 200 gigatons of carbon, to be precise — generated by industrial activity over the last 150 years.

Read article at Restoring Forests Could Help Put a Brake on Global Warming, Study Finds 


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