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While the world needs to conserve forests to slow the rise in global temperatures, planting more trees won’t solve the problem if emissions continue to increase and deforestation doesn’t stop.
What can planting a tree accomplish to save the world’s forests?
A lot – and at the same time, not enough.
That’s the landscape laid out by a host of experts as the United States reaches its 150th Arbor Day, in a world drastically changed from 1872, when Nebraska newspaper editor J. Sterling Morton was the first to propose the holiday, which is observed on the Friday before April 5.
