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Yale Environment 360: Water that evaporates from trees and forests not only has a significant local cooling effect, but also plays a role in cooling the global climate, according to a new study by scientists at the Carnegie Global Ecology department. Reporting in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the scientists found that evaporation from trees cooled the global climate by causing clouds to form low in the atmosphere, which reflects the sun’s rays back into space. Scientists have long known that evaporation......
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Evaporation from Trees Helps Cool the Global Climate, Study Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 15th, 2011
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