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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Zillions of Carbon-Eating Trees Discovered |
| 2018-03-08 |
| On Planet Earth, of course! Scientists have discovered a whopping 467 million hectares of previously unreported forest scattered around the world. "To 'find' an area of forest that represents 10 percent of the global forest cover is very very significant, with broad consequences for global carbon budgeting and dryland restoration and management," says Professor Andrew Lowe, Chair of Plant Conservation Biology at the University of Adelaide. "It shows that dryland regions have a greater capacity to support trees than previously perceived and understood. With its low opportunity costs, dryland could therefore provide a unique chance to mitigate climate change through large-scale conservation and afforestation actions. It also shows the potential for improved livelihoods of the people in these areas." |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #10 And the winner is comment #8. And yes, I keep the land line solely to find my cell, which I swear has legs. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-03-08 22:01 |
| #9 I use the house land line to locate my cellie. But sometimes I forget who I'm calling. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-03-08 19:28 |
| #8 More than once I have searched my house looking for the glasses I happened to be holding in my right hand. This is why I just drink right out of the bottle. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-03-08 19:19 |
| #7 We might have a few less with this damn emerald ash borer and rhino beetle. My woods are in bad shape. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2018-03-08 18:10 |
| #6 Bring me |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-03-08 17:58 |
| #5 cant see the trees for the forest (and, no, I didn't spell "cant" wrong) |
| Posted by: Shish Forkbeard9742 2018-03-08 17:09 |
| #4 What's being missed in plain sight More than once I have searched my house looking for the glasses I happened to be holding in my right hand. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-03-08 16:53 |
| #3 All of a piece. Fail to notice that which can actually be seen (trees) while chasing grants to prove a dubious conjecture (gerbil worming.) What's being missed in plain sight while the imaginary Russian collusion hunt proceeds breathlessly apace? Historians are going to have fun chronicling this era... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-03-08 13:25 |
| #2 Has anyone alerted ManBearPig of this discovery? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManBearPig |
| Posted by: Eltoroverde 2018-03-08 13:03 |
| #1 Idiots.... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-03-08 12:53 |