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Climate Change Update: Only Healthy Trees Can Save The Planet

Not all trees can save the planet. This is the new study published in the journal Ecology Letters stating that not all trees can help counter the progressing pace of global warming because they take carbon out of the air, only healthy trees do.

The climate change that causes hotter and longer summers that weakened trees, destroying the whole forest in North America and be sources of carbon. From the researcher's point of view, North American trees won't save the planet from climate change.

The climate change causes the growth rate of trees to decrease, News Week reported. This is a reaction due to the environmental stressors such as cold or drought. According to a researcher at the University of Arizona and another author on the study, Noah Charney said that there is a critical and possible harm going on.

Sam Cox

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