🌳 Planting more than a trillion new trees would over time capture more than 800 billion tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a new study. (hereandnow)
Swiss researchers are studying the effects of planting trees to capture carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Researchers in Switzerland have a simple idea for countering the impacts of climate change: Plant more trees.Over time, these trees would capture more than 800 billion tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to a“The nice thing about this solution is it’s really low-tech,” says Thomas Crowther, a co-author of the study and climate change ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
According to the study, there’s a lot of space on the planet to plant new trees, particularly in Russia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and China. Crowther doesn’t discount the role of cutting emissions in fighting climate change — that still needs to happen, he says. But in terms of capturing the carbon dioxide already choking the atmosphere, he tells“Now, I'm not trying to discourage all of the brilliant technological advances, but we've already got [a] huge amount of space available for trees,” Crowther says, “and if we can restore trees on those lands — 0.
“Of course, we have to have, first, urban land for humans to live, and second, agricultural land to support our growing population. And that's why we made sure that we focused on areas that we are not using. We excluded those urban and agricultural areas.”“So, as with every story, there's always ... the bigger the story, the bigger the naysayers. And so of course there's gonna be people who like other solutions, and that's great.
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