Former West Virginia Coal Mines Turned into Carbon-Sucking Forests

Dramatic steps are needed to avoid potentially catastrophic levels of global warming, according to the latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Experts say nature provides some of the best ways to pull planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Restoring forests is one route. In West Virginia, where strip mines once scarred the Earth, experts are working to bring back the forests that once covered vast swaths of Appalachia. VOA’s Steve Baragona has more.

Originally published November 13, 2018, by Voice of America