by faster | Oct 1, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Phys.org DATE: October 1, 2018 SNIP: Plant scientists have observed that when levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do something unusual: They thicken their leaves. And since human activity is raising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels,...
by faster | Sep 13, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Michigan State University DATE: September 13, 2018 SNIP: Current climate change models might be overestimating how much carbon dioxide plants can suck from the atmosphere. Thanks to molecular research on photosynthesis done at the MSU-DOE Plant Research...
by faster | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Science Daily DATE: April 4, 2018 SNIP: Over the past 10 years, the number of plant species on European mountain tops has increased by five-times more than during the period 1957-66. Data on 302 European peaks covering 145 years shows that the acceleration in...
by faster | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Science News DATE: October 26, 2017 SNIP: Some mosses in the eastern Canadian Arctic, long entombed in ice, are now emerging into the sunlight. And the radiocarbon ages of those plants suggest that summertime temperatures in the region are the warmest they’ve...
by faster | Oct 6, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Ottawa Citizen DATE: October 6, 2017 SNIP: An American forest scientist has identified a new and scary face of global warming for Ottawa residents: Not drought or pestilence, but bigger and badder poison ivy. Lee Frelich is a big name in the field of...
