Climate conundrum.(analysis of carbon cycles provides information for debate about where carbon dioxide is processed through photosynthesis)(Brief Article)

U.S. News & World Report | November 16, 1998 | Copyright

North American forests provide a new clue to the mystery of the world's carbon cycles

As officials from 170 nations wrangle this week in Buenos Aires over details of implementing last year's climate-change treaty, their efforts are hampered by the fact that predicting the impact of global warming is an imprecise science at best. One unsolved mystery is where all the carbon dioxide (CO2) pumped into the atmosphere ends up. A controversial new study suggests that North American forests, through the process of photosynthesis, soak up 1.7 billion metric tons of CO2 a ...

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