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Why is the boreal forest breathing CO2 more deeply?
2013-08-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: The boreal forest seems to like the higher levels of carbon dioxide that result from fossil-fuel burning. All that carbon appears to be enabling growth rates not seen in human history for the northernmost forest, according to a new study. "Boreal forests are more active than 50 years ago," says geochemist Heather Graven of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, lead author of the new analysis, published online August 8 in Science. She and her colleagues documented a dramatic uptick in the flow...
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