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Basic biology suggests that plants might grow faster in a world with more carbon dioxide, and field experiments bear that out: when you pump extra CO2 into a field or a forest, trees and other vegetation tend to get bigger...
...step in that direction. A team of researchers used 22 years' worth of carefully accumulated measurements of hardwood forests in and near the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, in Edgewater, Md., to show that their growth has accelerated significantly. On average, the stands were expanding at a rate of two extra tons of mass per acre per year, by the end of the study - the equivalent of a single two-foot-diameter tree, if you could grow a tree that big in a year. "We don't know exactly when it started," says co-author Geoffrey Parker, a forest ecologist...
...after the game-changing goal, Brown was able to secure the win with two empty-net goals in the third period after Richter was subbed out in favor of an extra attacker...
...ride on the Green Line to a night of art, music, and mingling at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On the third Thursday of every month, for just $5, feel cultured as you explore the collections while (if you’re willing to pay a little extra) sipping a cocktail...
Wilf says that there are four key ideas she would draw upon from her time at Harvard to shape Israel’s educational system: the liberal arts curriculum, diverse extra-curricular opportunities—Wilf tried her hand at everything from squash to DJing while in college—the “discipline of learning,” and “a real-life example of how a private institution can actually support important social values...