GUARDIAN | Environment
Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them?
德国濒临消亡的森林正在失去吸收二氧化碳的能力。一种新的种植方式能拯救它们吗？
Spruce trees killed by bark beetles in the Harz mountains near Schierke. The pest has ravaged German forests since 2018.
2026-01-08 1335词 晦涩
The loss has sparked a reckoning with the modern forestry methods pioneered by Germany that often rely on expanses of monoculture plantations. The ferocity of the beetle outbreak means there is no going back to the old way of doing things: replacing the dead spruce with saplings from the same species would probably guarantee catastrophe once again.
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