Are Genetically Modified Trees a Climate Change Solution?
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Genetically modified trees that are designed to grow faster and store more carbon could help reverse climate change.
Subscribe to Freethink on Substack for free Get our favorite new stories right to your inbox every week Subscribe now Charles DeLisi was in grade school when he first had an inkling his environment was changing. At the time, he loved to play in the forest. Lucky for him, he lived in a very wooded area. Trees filled his neighborhood. But, by the time he entered high school, many of his beloved trees were gone — cemented over, which he describes as one of the saddest events of his adolescence. Now DeLisi says we are approaching another tipping point where large swaths of nature’s playgroun
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