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Planting trees could buy more time to fight climate change than thought

Earth has 0.9 billion hectares that are suitable for new forests

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PLANTING TIME  There’s room on Earth for a lot more forests, a new study finds. Planting a lot of trees soon could capture carbon and buy time to cope with climate change.

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By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

A whopping new estimate of the power of planting trees could rearrange to-do lists for fighting climate change.