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Surprising Truth Behind Planting Trees and Climate Change
Season 2 Episode 4 | 8m 50s
| Video has closed captioning.
For decades we’ve been planting trees in hopes of reducing carbon pollution. But when it comes to carbon sequestration, have we actually been getting it all backward? We travel to the Pacific Northwest forests of Oregon to see what we can learn about forest carbon sinks and the groundbreaking research with Oregon State University’s Department of Forestry.
