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Reforestation is making climate change worse, as we've been planting the wrong trees https://t.co/sdE9lFIMwx pic.twitter.com/p2M2mbRLI1
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 5, 2016
You’ve heard it before: Deforestation is a major contributor to climate change. To put it simply, trees store carbon, preventing it from entering the atmosphere—which means there are fewer greenhouse gases screwing with Earth’s climate. And, broadly speaking, that’s true. Planting trees is good for the planet. But it’s more complicated than that. Research published this week took a fine-toothed comb to the issue of forest management and reforestation. And the researchers found a major tangle: It turns out we’ve been planting the wrong trees, for a long time. And that choice of trees has actually been making climate change worse.
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https://twitter.com/Aaron_RS/status/695714910114721792
— The H2 (@TheH2) February 5, 2016
@Newsweek wrong trees? That's arborism.
— Terry Williams (@TJ_Will) February 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/murrjohnson/status/695720335199457280
https://twitter.com/kaijubushi/status/695715538065088513
@Newsweek pic.twitter.com/ahBasTzJtR
— Farbrook (@dutchindian) February 5, 2016
@Newsweek Oh for fucks sake.
— We are screwed (@PornPops69) February 5, 2016
@Newsweek Oh Good Lord… not this sh@t again!
— Ghost of Your Late Great Turkey (@TGrtStnsGst) February 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/695716509725954048
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