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Christoph Weigel

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Freitag, 05.07.2019

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the Guardian features a recently published study by the crowther lab at ETH zurich, who, based on an extensive census of the world's trees published in a study from 2015, suggest a technically feasible approach to drastically curb CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere: plant more trees. this sounds trivial but their calculations are impressive. the particular charme of their approach is that no novel technologies would have to be developed, no central political agreement reached to implement it - each country could start rightaway.

also impressive are the efforts of this group of researchers to maximize public outreach (still rather the exception for scientists). they've set up a dedicated webpage, are active on facebook, and on twitter.

Quelle: Damian Carrington Bild: Gabrielle Lurie/T... EN theguardian.com

04.07.2019

Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis

Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists, who have made the first calculation of how many more trees could be planted without encroaching on ...