Planting trees at high latitudes in the Arctic could accelerate rather than decelerate global warming, argue scientists

Nov 07, 2024

Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees' ability to store large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. But, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, an international group of scientists argue that tree planting at high latitudes will accelerate, rather than decelerate, global warming.