Word: regrowth
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...significant finding that may ultimately prolong the life of heart attack victims, a team of researchers at the Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital have found that implanting certain stem cells into areas of the heart damaged by heart attacks may stimulate blood vessel regrowth...
SOIL INSULATION Soil is an excellent insulator that can protect tree roots from a fire's heat, permitting regrowth to begin quickly. But a charred landscape is also vulnerable to erosion...
...protocol, the U.S. will have to reduce its total carbon emissions within the next decade by roughly 600 million tons. The U.S. delegation went into the talks demanding that 300 of these 600 million tons of carbon should be accounted for by so-called carbon sinks--mainly the natural regrowth of forests in the U.S., which removes carbon from the atmosphere. This would essentially enable the U.S. to cut its mandatory emissions reductions by half. Not surprisingly, Europeans came out strongly against the proposal. In the final days of the conference, the Americans decreased their demands for counting natural carbon...