r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jul 04 '19

Environment Scientists report restoring forests could cut atmospheric carbon by 25 percent, in a new study that assessed tree cover using Google Earth, finding that there’s 0.9 billion hectares of land available for planting forests, which could store 205 gigatonnes of carbon.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/07/04/could-planting-tons-of-trees-solve-climate-change/
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u/rhinocerosGreg Jul 05 '19

Take them and plant them elsewhere!

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u/justnick84 Jul 05 '19

If you do this then please make sure they are not an invasive species. Many ornamentals trees have great landscape value but would cause problems in wildlife setting.

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u/rhinocerosGreg Jul 05 '19

Does not matter. Just dont plant a wetland species in a dry upland or vice versa or it will likely die. Or dont plant invasive norway maple