215 million hectares of forest – an area bigger than Mexico – could grow back by itself, if we can just leave it alone
- Written by Brooke Williams, Research Fellow, School of Biology & Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology
Gustavo Frazao/ShutterstockAbout 215 million hectares of land – an area bigger than Mexico – could be reforested naturally and without costly manual planting, our new research shows.
This would allow us to offset around 23.4 gigatonnes of global carbon emissions over the next three decades. That’s about 50 years worth of...





