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To curb climate change, we need to protect and expand US forests

  • Written by William Moomaw, Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
imageCypress swamp near Mandeville, Louisiana.Neal Wellons/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Forests have been removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing carbon for more than 300 million years. When we cut down or burn trees and disturb forest soils, we release that stored carbon to the atmosphere. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, one-third...

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