afforestation

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So ramping up afforestation – or tree planting - will not be an easy task.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 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

He told of how unemployment might be largely eliminated by developments in the countryside, through new methods of agriculture, through light railways, through afforestation, through stock-breeding, through the reclamation of land.

From Lloyd George The Man and His Story by Dilnot, Frank