Centuries of pondering — and squabbling about — trees
COMIC: Do forests warm or cool the Earth? What’s their effect on global climate change? A comic narrated by polymath Benjamin Franklin describes the evolution of thought on this issue and what we still don’t know.
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Eryn Brown is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Nature and other publications. Reach her at [email protected].
Maki Naro is an award-winning feral cartoonist and science communicator. You can reliably find him online, where he tweets from the handle @sciencecomic.
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