Improving climate models to account for plant behavior yields 'goodish' news
Monday, October 29, 2018 - 11:10
in Earth & Climate
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.