Reporting intern Kate Petersen is a master’s student in the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The push for standing forest protections in US climate policy
In 2019, Moomaw and his co-authors published a scientific review finding that the capacity of forested lands to sequester carbon dioxide could be increased significantly. They say the fastest way to do this is through what they call “proforestation,” the natural growth and development of standing forest ecosystems.
January 27, 2021