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Human activities increasing carbon sequestration in forests

06-13-2007 · EurekAlert!

Human-caused nitrogen deposition has been indirectly "fertilizing" forests, increasing their growth and sequestering major amounts of carbon, a new study in the journal Nature suggests. To some degree, this is offsetting carbon dioxide emissions.

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