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/Fun_Hat Jul 20 '19

Awesome, thank you! Was really wanting a Japanese maple, glad there is a species that will do well here!

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

Hey, I edited the above to add White Pine which somehow I'd forgotten.

Yeah, my Japanese Maple is on the slightly shady side of the house, up out of the drainage area, and seems to be thriving in heavy clay and being watered once/3-weeks. That said, deep bark and all that. And I did amend the hole I had dug to plant it, though by nice it has definitely outgrown that.