Albedo can reduce climate benefit of tree planting: New tool identifies locations with high climate-cooling potential
Published Date: 3/26/2024
Source: phys.org
As efforts to restore tree cover accelerate to help avoid runaway climate change, a new study highlights how restoring tree cover can, in some locations, heat up the Earth rather than cool it by affecting how much sunlight the surface reflects (i.e. "the albedo").