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Does planting trees actually help the climate? Here’s what we know.

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My problem is not with the ambition of a trillion more trees; it is with the word ‘planting,’” the journalist Fred Pearce wrote in the book A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World. Pearce pointed out that Europe has a third more trees now than it did in 1900, mostly a result of natural regrowth.