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Yes, more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere helps plants grow, but it’s no excuse to downplay climate change

  • Written by Vanessa Haverd, Principal research scientist, CSIRO
Yes, more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere helps plants grow, but it’s no excuse to downplay climate changeShutterstock

The alarming rate of carbon dioxide flowing into our atmosphere is affecting plant life in interesting ways – but perhaps not in the way you’d expect.

Despite large losses of vegetation to land clearing, drought and wildfires, carbon dioxide is absorbed and stored in vegetation and soils at a growing rate.

This is called...

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