High carbon dioxide levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, could worsen climate change effects

When levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do something unusual: They thicken their leaves. Now scientists have shown that this reaction by plants will actually worsen climate change by making the global ‘carbon sink’ contributed by plants less productive.

Source: sciencedaily.com

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