Article: Tree planting could ease global warming, California scientists say.

By Virginia Hennessey, The Monterey County Herald, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 17--As scientists sounded alarms about global warming at an international forum in Argentina this week, local research scientists announced that the solution may be as simple as planting trees.

A lot of trees.

Planting trees on marginal agricultural land could trap significant amounts of carbon dioxide, a so-called greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, according to findings by a team of researchers from CSU-Monterey Bay and NASA Ames Research Center in Menlo Park.

The team, led by Christopher Potter of NASA Ames and ...

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