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Planting trees to mitigate climate change is useful in the tropics. At higher latitudes trees can have a warming effect.

Podcast: Uncontrolled logging is taking its toll on wildlife and climate. Does planting trees work the other way around?

In Hanna Lee's childhood South Korea, afforestation was a happy success story. As a climate researcher, she has realized that planting trees is not always good.