Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 10/31/18


Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A new study from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that plant nutrient uptake in the absence of photosynthesis affects greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. “This is goodish news, with respect to what is currently in the climate models,” said William Riley, a scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Earth & Environmental Sciences Area.

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