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The earth’s plants absorb more carbon dioxide

By d.wine (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

Ben Smith, professor at the department, was interviewed on SVT Nyheter about new research showing that the world’s plants have increased their uptake of carbon dioxide.

This increase in carbon uptake has contributed to slowing the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2002 and 2014.

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"Växter hjälper till i koldioxidkrisen" (Article in Swedish)
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