Follow EarthBlips on TwitterA Role for Trees in Climate Change Legislation?
Published 5/11/2009 at Scientific American - Environment
Long the bete noir of conservationists, paper and forest companies are using the climate debate to try to recast themselves as environmental champions, caretakers of natural resources capable of sucking large quantities of heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. [More]
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