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In the Arctic, planting more trees actually makes the world warmer

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In many parts of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored and global warming is reduced. This is the idea behind recent proposals to plant more trees in Alaska, Greenland and Iceland. However, we recently published a paper in the journal Nature Geoscience arguing that tree planting is not a climate solution in…