Trees Not a Silver Bullet to Mitigate Climate Change
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In the current discourse on climate change, trees and forests are often positioned as viable mitigation measures. Big numbers…
In the current discourse on climate change, trees and forests are often positioned as viable mitigation measures. Big numbers…
Editor’s note: From “climate adaptation” to “blue carbon,” from “landscape approach" to “ecosystem services,” environmental…
The role that trees can play in solving the climate crisis is receiving growing attention. This will be highlighted as the…
In October 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its report on the feasibility of us keeping under…
The government claims that volunteers at 1,000 sites participated in the coordinated reforestation efforts
We aren’t going to get anywhere near a trillion trees planted in enough time and they wouldn't be enough. We need to plant…
Ethiopia has just planted 353 million trees in 12 hours. It is part of the national “green legacy” initiative to encourage all…
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A Trillion Trees? Let’s Talk About It… A recently released study in the journal Science advocates for reforestation as the most…
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In recent weeks, a new study by researchers at ETH Zurich has hit the headlines worldwide (Bastin et al. 2019). It is about…
Swiss scientists have identified an area roughly the size of the United States that could be newly shaded by planting more trees.
Trees are a low-tech, high-efficiency way to offset much of humankind’s negative impact on the climate. What’s even better, we…
Die letzten Wochen hat eine neue Studie von Forschern der ETH Zürich für weltweite Schlagzeilen gesorgt (Bastin et al. 2018).
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The right trees planted in the right place could have a major impact on climate change. The study identifies .09 billion…
Planting trees, while beneficial to the planet, is not an easy solution to climate change. (Credit: Janelle Lugge/Shutterstock…
There’s been a spate of papers on reforestation just lately and I was despairing of being able to keep track of them, let alone…
Last week, a new study in the journal Science highlighted the role forests could play in tackling climate change. Researchers…
Earlier this month, a study appeared in Science that found that a global reforestation effort could capture 205 gigatons of CO2…
New research suggests that reforesting the planet offers us the greatest current opportunity to mitigate climate change by…
Large-scale re-forestation can be a very effective means to decarbonize the future. The post Can Nature Save Humanity? appeared…
When the governments in the advanced nations abandoned full employment as an overarching macroeconomic objective, and instead…
Advocates for reforestation must consider who owns the land to be reforested, and how the reforestation is to be done.
Robin ChazdonThe green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and…
If CO2 were a climate problem, it would cost just some $300 billion to fix…
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Researchers based at ETH Zurich is Switzerland say that planting up to a trillion trees is the most efficient and cost…
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When it…
Jessica Corbett, staff writerAmid record-setting temperatures worldwide and predictions by experts that this year will be among…
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Today, The Guardian reports: Tree planting ‘has mind-blowing potential’ to tackle climate…
Scientists now know where to start restoring the forests to soak up carbon and cool the planet, by planting more trees on…
The world is getting warmer. Whether the cause is a human activity or natural variability—and the preponderance of evidence…
Trees are an unquestionably important part of our environment, and their ability to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen means…
(Credit: Jay Mantri/Shutterstock) Climate change is devastating coral reefs, raising sea levels and displacing people across…
The Earth could support enough additional trees to eliminate about two-thirds of the carbon that's in the atmosphere today as a…
When it comes to climate change research, most studies bear bad news regarding the looming, very real threat of a warming…
Trees are good for all sorts of things, like providing shade for picnics and habitat for animals. But they’re also a huge part…
Two papers published this week in major journals claim to do the same thing: show where forests should be restored. But they…