Reforesting an area the size of the US needed to help avert climate breakdown, say researchers – are they right?

By Mark Maslin Restoring the world’s forests on an unprecedented scale is “the best climate change solution available”, according to a recent study. The researchers claim that covering 900m hectares of land – roughly the size of the continental US – with trees could store up to 205 billion tonnes of carbon, about two thirds of the carbon that humans have already put into the..

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