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Trees aren't a climate change cure-all – 2 new studies on the life and death of trees in a warming world show why

  • Written by: William R.L. Anderegg, Associate Professor of Ecology, School Of Biological Sciences, University of Utah
imageWhen trees burn, all the carbon they have stored goes back into the atmosphere.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

When people talk about ways to slow climate change, they often mention trees, and for good reason. Forests take up a large amount of the planet-warming carbon dioxide that people put into the atmosphere when they burn fossil fuels....

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