Natural forest regrowth can be better than planting trees: study

"There are places where it makes sense to plant trees, and there are places where it makes sense to naturally regenerate forests," Jacob Bukoski, one of the authors of the study told AFP. "If you want to sequester carbon at the lowest cost, some combination of natural regeneration and plantations makes a lot of sense," said the researcher at Oregon State University in the United States. Restoring forests has massive potential to help limit rising global temperatures because trees absorb heat-trapping...