Guardian: Forests play an important an important role in climate change. The destruction and degradation of forests contributes to the problem through the release of CO2. But the planting of new forests can help mitigate against climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Combined with the sun's energy, the captured carbon is converted into trunks, branches, roots and leaves via the process of photosynthesis. It is stored in this "biomass" until being returned back into the atmosphere, whether through...
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/29/planting-trees-climate-change
Enclosure: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/sres/land_use/index.php?idp=0
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