India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years. Here are the results
The Western Ghats is a mountain range that runs 1,600 km along India’s west coast. Credit: Ilan Kumaran, Author provided Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for reducing planet-heating carbon in the atmosphere while also boosting biodiversity, the benefits ecosystems offer and even the fruitfulness of livelihoods. But efforts to increase global tree cover…