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Brazil: Experiment aims to steep rainforest in carbon dioxide

2013-04-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature: One of the wild cards in climate change is the fate of the Amazon rainforest. Will it shrivel as the region dries in a warming climate? Or will it grow even faster as the added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere spurs photosynthesis and allows plants to use water more efficiently? A dying rainforest could release gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating warming; a CO2-fertilized forest could have the opposite effect, sucking up carbon and putting the brakes on climate change. Climate...

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