US EditionYes, NBC News, Trees in the Amazon Benefit From Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels - ClimateRealism
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More CO2 in the atmosphere has allowed the trees in the Amazon to grow more. According to an international team of researchers, this is not necessarily good news.
Yes, NBC News, Trees in the Amazon Benefit from Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels - ClimateRealism
NBC News is reporting on a new study which found that the Amazon rain forest is benefitting from increased carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere. The findings of the study, while informative, are unsurprising. Multiple studies have confirmed what agronomists, botanists, and farmers and greenhouse operators have long known, that higher CO2 makes plants grow faster, stronger, and more lushly, and as a result, recent increases in CO2 have i…
On the one hand, the rising CO2 concentration in the air has harmful consequences - for example, it is heating global warming. On the other hand, it causes the rainforest giants in the Amazon region to grow ever larger: according to a research team, the trees grow 3.2 percent per decade.
Trees in the Amazon rainforest are growing larger in response to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, according to a new study. More...
The fattening forest: trees of the Amazon are getting bigger - Scientific Inquirer
Average tree size across the Amazon has increased by 3.2% every decade consistent with a response to rising carbon dioxide levels, a new study suggests. The new research published today (25 Sep) in Nature Plants by a global team of tropical forest scientists shows that the average size of trees in Amazon forests has increased over recent decades. The team of almost a hundred researchers monitored the size of trees in 188 permanent plots and d…
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