afforestation
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Domestically, there have been afforestation plans to restore natural flood barriers.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
The researchers set out to calculate how much land area of afforestation would be needed to compensate for these emissions by 2050.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
Although some tree plantations involve reforestation of degraded land, in many cases they involve afforestation -- planting forests in undegraded and previously unforested regions such as grasslands.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023
And carbon removal schemes like those based on afforestation — planting trees that will store carbon as they grow — might last only a few years if a disease or forest fire comes along.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2023
By making use of suitable composts, it will be possible to carry out the successful afforestation of land formerly regarded as wholly unproductive.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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