The ‘sunshades’ created by plants that are helping to slow climate change
Apr.29, 2013 in
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Daily Mail: Plants help to slow climate change by emitting gases that form of clouds, creating a ‘sunshade’ over the planet, scientists have discovered.
The tiny sun-dimming effect could offset about one percent of warming worldwide and up to 30 percent locally such as over vast northern forests in Siberia, Canada or the Nordic nations, they wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience.
While proportionally small, some scientists said the study provided further evidence of the importance of protecting forests,…
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