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Earth's green carbon sink on the wane
Description: As global temperatures have risen in recent decades, the amount of atmospheric carbon being converted into plant biomass has increased in step. However, in a paper published in Science, ecologists Maosheng Zhao and Steve Running at the University of Montana in Missoula report a surprising reversal of this trend over the last decade, despite its having been the warmest on record. [Source: Nature News]
URL: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100819/full/news.2010.418.html
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Source: Nature News
Publish Date: 8/19/2010
Reading Level: Basic
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