Maaadeira!!!

Depois de extintos os fogos deste Verão, convém ter-se em consideração os seguintes estudos:

(...) a four-year international study led by researchers at the University of Newcastle, in Britain, and the Free University of Amsterdam, identifies several myths about the link between forests and water. For example, in arid and semi-arid areas, trees consume far more water than they trap. And it is not the trees that catch sediment and nutrients, and steady the flow of the rivers, but the fact that the soil has not been compressed.
(...)
Growing trees consume carbon dioxide and it was thought that only when the tree died, perhaps hundreds of years later, would the carbon be returned to the atmosphere. No such luck. In a paper published in Nature this week, a team of American and Brazilian scientists found that trees were silently returning the carbon after just five years.

(in Economist, via Adam Smith Institute)

Antes que se gastem milhões em subsídios à reflorestação.