Tropical forests can regrow within 20 years on some abandoned farmland

In the tropics, trees are cleared to make way for farmland that is abandoned once the soil is no longer productive – but these sites can become forest again surprisingly quickly

Tropical forests can regrow within 20 years on some abandoned farmland
In the tropics, trees are cleared to make way for farmland that is abandoned once the soil is no longer productive – but these sites can become forest again surprisingly quickly