Mongabay: Could cutting down trees and burying them help fight global warming? An article in this week’s issue of New Scientist suggests so. Ning Zeng, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park, tells New Scientist that thinning forests and burying "excess wood" in a manner in which its didn’t decay could sequester enough carbon to offset all of our fossil-fuel emissions. "Zeng gives an example of a plot of 1 square kilometre (100 hectares), …
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Could felling and burying trees help fight global warming?
Mongabay: Could cutting down trees and burying them help fight global warming? An article in this week’s issue of New Scientist suggests so. Ning Zeng, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park, tells New Scientist that thinning forests and burying "excess wood" in a manner in which its didn’t decay could sequester enough carbon to offset all of our fossil-fuel emissions. "Zeng gives an example of a plot of 1 square kilometre (100 hectares), …
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