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Could fertilising trees save the climate?
New Scientist: Should we "dope" trees with nitrogen fertiliser to engineer a cooler global climate? New findings suggest the nutrient could be a switch for determining how much solar energy forests in Earth's cooler regions reflect back out into space. Scott Ollinger of the University ...
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Geoengineering Redux: Fertilizing Trees with Nitrogen to Fight Climate Change
TreeHugger — ... , but I have a feeling this new geoengineering proposed will still raise quite a few hackles. The idea, which originated with Federico Magnani of Italy's University of Bologna, is, as the name implies, fairly straightforward: You would fertilize, or "dope," as the New Scientist's Catherine Brahic put it, trees... ...

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