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Switzerland began planting black locust trees around 1750 to stabilise eroded hillsides and railway embankments, but today scientists say the invasive trees are replacing species-rich grasslands and changing their soil chemistry

Plants can help solve environmental problems, but one species planted in parts of Switzerland for environmental reasons has created another ecological problem there.

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