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Discovery News: Florida's vegetation has changed its structure over the last century in response to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and ecologists see the change as a plant-based call-to-arms, heralding dry times to come.
Plants breath in air and breath out moisture through tiny pores called stomata. Comparing a variety of contemporary plants growing in Florida with museum samples and peat bogs dating back 150 years ago, an international team of ecologists found that as the amount of carbon dioxide in the air......
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Plant Call-to-Arms Against Climate Change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 7th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation