Bedrock nitrogen may help forests buffer climate change, study finds

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 21:30 in Earth & Climate

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that forest trees have the ability to tap into nitrogen found in rocks, boosting the trees' growth and their ability to pull more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. If trees can access more nitrogen than previously thought, that could lead to more storage of carbon on land and less carbon remaining in the atmosphere.

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