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Plantations may do more harm than good, says CSIRO
Source: Posted: 01-02-2006 at 12:00:36
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A global study on the use of forest plantations for carbon sequestration has found they may not always benefit the environment. The study of large-scale plantations found that plantations can have an adverse effect on water supply, soil nutrition and salinity, even if they do have some benefit against gases causing global warming. CSIRO Land and Water researcher Dr Damien Barrett says even though plantations are only a stop-gap against reducing emissions, it is important to ... |
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