Climate Study Urges ‘Massive Scale’ Tree Planting in U.S. (1)

Planting trees may be one of the country’s best ways to suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to become carbon neutral and address climate change, according to a report published Friday by the World Resources Institute.

The climate crisis is so urgent that the U.S. government needs to spend $6 billion per year over the next decade in order to begin planting enough trees and develop other methods of carbon removal to make a difference for the climate, the report says.

About $4 billion of that should be in federal subsidies for planting trees, it says.

The U.S. has the ...