Trees can slow the greenhouse effect.

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: June 1, 1994 | Copyright information

Agroforestry, which involves growing trees and farm crops on the same fields, could help the environment by decreasing the greenhouse effect. A single 2,000-acre farm that uses agroforestry techniques could absorb 1,400 tons of carbon and carbon dioxide each year.

The practice of agroforestry--growing trees and agricultural crops on the same land--will slow the "greenhouse effect" that threatens the Earth, according to University of Missouri-Columbia scientists. "The average tree...

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