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Genetically Altering Trees To Sequester More Carbon

Posted by Soulskill on from the increasing-the-world's-suv-capacity dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could sequester several billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year and so help ameliorate global warming, according to estimates published in the October issue of BioScience. The study, by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, outlines a variety of strategies (PDF) for augmenting the processes that plants use to sequester carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into long-lived forms of carbon, first in vegetation and ultimately in soil."

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  1. Hurr... dur... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But global warming's a fraud.

    Glenn Beck says so.

    1. Re:Hurr... dur... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Will all do respect for idiots, Glenn is an idiot.

  2. Re:What happens .. by Local+ID10T · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (Score:0, Troll)

    Should be Funny, not Troll. Learn to moderate.

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