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A first-of-its-kind global study shows that children in 27 developing countries have better nutrition--when they live near forests. The results challenge the assumption that improving nutrition in poorer countries requires clearing forests--and, instead, suggest that forest conservation could be a powerful tool for improving the nutrition of children. Led by researchers at the University of Vermont's Gund Institute for Environment, the study was published by the journal Science Advances on Aug. 15, 2018.
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