African Farmers Grow Trees, Reverse Climate Change

Full article here.

“Farmers in the western Sahel have achieved a remarkable success by deploying a secret weapon often overlooked in wealthier places: trees. Not planting trees. Growing them.”

The new swath of green trees is so thick, it’s visible from space.

Science stories, revisited

Statistics abound in the popular press, and they’ve often been stretched out of shape like the results of a global game of telephone. This blog entry traces the history of a oft-quoted statistic (10 percent of Wall Street employees are psychopaths) that bears little resemblance to its scientific underpinnings.