American Chestnut Trees a Sponge for Greenhouse Gases
Forests are not only great places to go and commune with nature. They also play a role in helping to slow climate change through absorbing greenhouse gases.
The American Chestnut tree was once the predominant forest covering across the eastern United States. But the arrival of a deadly red fungus known as the chestnut blight in the early 1900s made this tree all but extinct. Today, it’s thought that there are around one thousand surviving American Chestnut trees remaining in the wild.
This could all change with a new …
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