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How would planting 8 billion trees every year for 20 years affect Earth's climate?

  • Written by Karen D. Holl, Professor of Restoration Ecology, University of California, Santa Cruz
imagePlanting 8 billion trees a year would replace about half of the 15 billion cut down annually.Michael Tewelde/AFP via Getty Imagesimage

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