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How Tech Can Help Curb Emissions by Planting 500 Billion New Trees
Trees are a low-tech, high-efficiency way to offset much of humankind's negative impact on the climate. What's even better, we have plenty of room for a lot more of them. A new study conducted by researchers at Switzerland's ETH-Zürich, published in Science, details how Earth could support almost an additional billion hectares of trees without the new forests pushing into existing urban or agricultural areas. Once the trees grow to maturity, they could store more than 200 billion metric tons of carbon. Great news indeed, but it still leaves us with some huge unanswered questions. Where and how are we going to plant all the new trees?