News: “Study Finds a Tree Growth Spurt”

One study suggests that American trees may be growing faster in response to climate change and CO2 levels.  If this is so, then it would make reforestation an easier and more effective method of combating climate change.  Keep an eye on this for more data to emerge.

Study Finds a Tree Growth Spurt

Forests in the eastern United States appear to be growing faster in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a new study has found. The study centered on trees in mixed hardwood stands on the western edge of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland that are representative of much of the those on the Eastern Seaboard.