Planting trees may not reverse climate change but it will help locally
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 05:30
in Earth & Climate
Afforestation, planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of climate change by cooling temperate regions finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management. Afforestation would lead to cooler and wetter summers by the end of this century.