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August 06, 2013

Could planting trees in the desert mitigate climate change
Stuttgart, Germany (SPX) Aug 06, 2013
As the world starts feeling the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and consequent global temperature rise, researchers are looking for a Plan B to mitigate climate change. A group of German scientists has now come up with an environmentally friendly method that they say could do just that. The technique, dubbed carbon farming, consists in planting trees in arid regions on a large scale to capture CO2. They publish their study in Earth System Dynamics, a journal of the European Geosciences ... read more

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