PARIS — Planting trees in the wrong places can actually contribute to global warming, scientists said on Tuesday , but a new map identifies the best locations to regrow forests and cool the planet.PARIS — Planting trees in the wrong places can actually contribute to global warming, scientists said on Tuesday , but a new map identifies the best locations to regrow forests and cool the planet.
"There are some places where putting trees back leads to net climate negative outcomes," Susan Cook-Patton, one of the study's co-authors, told AFP. They found that projects that didn't factor albedo into the equation overestimated the climate benefit of additional trees by between 20 to 80 per cent. It is one of Earth's major cooling agents, along with lands and oceans that absorb excess heat and planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.