Why Just Planting Trees Won’t Save the Planet | NOVA | PBS

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Could restoring lost forests can help slow climate change?

A paper published in 2019, estimated that there is enough land on Earth to support an extra trillion trees to capture carbon. But in the rush to grow trees, people ignored the supporting environment that exists in a forest. Discover why biodiversity matters in forests.

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