afforestation
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So ramping up afforestation – or tree planting - will not be an easy task.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025
The researchers said their findings should not suggest afforestation and carbon offsetting are futile.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
The researchers provide a tool practitioners and land managers can use to determine just how much of a problem albedo is for any reforestation or afforestation project on the globe.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024
And carbon removal schemes like those based on afforestation — planting trees that will store carbon as they grow — might last only a few years if a disease or forest fire comes along.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2023
We look forward to the part that this new clothing will play in the general scheme of afforestation.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 19, 1919 by Various
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