News Headline

High carbon dioxide levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, could worsen climate change effects

Source
Science Daily

Publication Date
2018-10-02

When levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do something unusual: They thicken their leaves. Now scientists have shown that this reaction by plants will actually worsen climate change by making the global 'carbon sink' contributed by plants less productive.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181001101709.htm