TIVISSA, Spain — Forests are getting some high-profile attention lately. President Trump expressed his support on Tuesday night for a global effort to plant one trillion trees, which itself was announced at a gathering of business and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland, in January. A trillion trees, it was said at that meeting of the World Economic Forum, would go a long way in addressing climate change. But while trees — and particularly forests full of trees — are vital for swallowing up and storing carbon, currently absorbing 30 percent of planet-warming carbon dioxide, they are also extremely vulnerable in the age of climate disruptions. That raises an increasingly urgent question: How best to manage woodlands in a world that humans have so profoundly altered?

Source: New York Times February 05, 2020 09:56 UTC