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...experiments that show how complicated the climate-vegetation connection can be. When you double the CO2 in greenhouses where wheat or soybeans are growing, for example, the plants grow bigger by an average of 20-40%. But things get messier when scientists add CO2 to plants growing in real-world conditions. In a set of experiments called the Free-Air Carbon-dioxide Enrichment project, or FACE, investigators have been introducing CO2 into the air in experimental fields and forests around the world. The result is that some plants do grow bigger, says Field, "but an increase in growth doesn...
Climate change will, moreover, lead to different effects in different parts of the world. "In northern areas," says Lobell, "you'll see an expansion of the growing season" - which, if the Finnish study is correct, won't necessarily help forests, but could be good for crops, since you can deliberately plant seeds that are suited to long summers. But in arid parts of the tropics, he says, where plant growth is limited by the availability of water, more frequent droughts could make things worse. "Large parts of the world," says Field, "are already at the warm edge of where things...
...Harvard Haitian Alliance is a really small organization," Anderson said. "It's often overlooked. [The earthquake's] a tragedy, but at the same time it's an opportunity for the school to see how much of an impact it's had on the entire world...
...hope it awakens Americans and the world to a fixable problem,” Arbuthnott said. “The people there are very strong-willed, but you can’t just provide aid and walk away...
...Last year was Hollywood's best performance in India to date. The success of the U.S. exports in the world's most prolific movie market - India makes over 1,000 films every year - began a year ago, as Indian audiences from Punjab to Chennai lapped up all genres of films, from Sony's Terminator Salvation to Warner's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to the Fox Star Studio-distributed Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Even Baz Luhrmann's romantic epic Australia, which tanked pretty much everywhere else in the world, made $2 million on the subcontinent - enough...