A study reveals that rising temperatures are causing them to lose more water, reducing their ability to absorb carbon. This discovery challenges long-held assumptions about how plants function.

Rising temperatures cause plants to leak more water, reducing their ability to absorb carbon and potentially turning them ...

Rising CO2 levels are making tropical trees more efficient at photosynthesis. Learn what this means for climate change.

As its name implies, the centre is seeking ways to add value to carbon dioxide by developing technologies that convert the gas into valuable substances. After all, that’s how plants deal with ...

As greenhouse gas concentrations in the air continue to climb, plants are faced with a veritable feast of carbon dioxide, which they use alongside water and sunlight to photosynthesize. While years of ...

Plus, the research showed that terrestrial plants are absorbing 31% more carbon dioxide than previously estimated. The amount of carbon dioxide that plants absorb and wipe from the atmosphere is ...

Tinkering with the enzyme Rubisco, they created plants that respond to rising levels of atmospheric CO2 with increased ...

The volume of CO2 in withered and torn fragments of oceanic plants that can remain undecomposed for hundreds to thousands of years is often deemed solely as fixed. On top of that, there are no ...