Carbon-capture tree plantations threaten tropical biodiversity for little gain, ecologists say

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Oct 3, 2023, 11:00 am177 pts
The increasingly urgent climate crisis has led to a boom in commercial tree plantations in an attempt to offset excess carbon emissions. However, authors of an opinion paper published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution argue that these carbon-offset plantations might come with costs for biodiversity…

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