Planting Trees May not Reverse Climate Change but It Will Help Locally (IMAGE)

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Planting Trees May not Reverse Climate Change but It Will Help Locally

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Afforestation, planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of climate change by cooling temperate regions.

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Case study for the assessment of the biogeophysical effects of a potential afforestation in Europe Borbála Gálos, Stefan Hagemann, Andreas Hänsler, Georg Kindermann, Diana Rechid, Kevin Sieck, Claas Teichmann and Daniela Jacob

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