afforestation

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Domestically, there have been afforestation plans to restore natural flood barriers.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025

The researchers set out to calculate how much land area of afforestation would be needed to compensate for these emissions by 2050.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

Although some tree plantations involve reforestation of degraded land, in many cases they involve afforestation -- planting forests in undegraded and previously unforested regions such as grasslands.

From Science Daily • Oct. 3, 2023

And carbon removal schemes like those based on afforestation — planting trees that will store carbon as they grow — might last only a few years if a disease or forest fire comes along.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2023

Yet it is often difficult to interest even the most reforming Chinese in afforestation, because it is not an easy subject for ethical enthusiasm.

From The Problem of China by Russell, Bertrand