Experts Turn Old Coal Mines into Carbon-Sucking Forests

Dramatic steps are needed to avoid potentially catastrophic levels of global warming, says the latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Experts say nature provides some of the best ways to pull planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Restoring forests is one route. In West Virginia, where strip mines scarred the earth, experts are working to bring back the forests that once covered vast swaths of the Appalachian Mountains. VOA’s Steve Baragona has more.

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