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ScienceDaily: While forests elsewhere are thinning from wildfires, insect damage and droughts partially attributed to global warming, some white spruce trees in the far north of Alaska have grown more vigorously in the last hundred years, especially since 1950, the study has found. The health of forests globally is gaining attention, because trees are thought to absorb a third of all industrial carbon emissions, transferring carbon dioxide into soil and wood. The study, in the journal Environmental Research Letters,......
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Trees on tundra’s border are growing faster in a hotter climate
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 10th, 2011
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