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Clock is running on our reliance on vegetation as a steady carbon sink
Trees and other plants have been critical in helping to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. But newly published scientific findings suggest the clock may be running on vegetation’s forever continuing at the same carbon sink efficiency rate currently taken for granted.
An international team of researchers published their findings in Science. “The enhanced vegetation productivity driven by increased concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) [i.e. the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE)] sustains an important negative feedback on climate warming,” they noted in the paper, but “the temporal dynamics of CFE remain unclear.”
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Most recently elected as a 2020 top “Forty Under 40” alumna of her alma mater, and a Top 50 Most Influential Businessperson of Color in the Boston suburbs, Kristen L. Pope is a multi-hyphenate visionary. She is a founder, speaker, award-winning TV journalist, and a multimedia strategist.
Kristen manages social media at Harvard University in the Division of Continuing Education. Separately, she runs her own digital content production company, Pope Productions Inc.
Pope Productions Inc. produces culture-shaping digital social content for clients like Wellesley College and Pentecostal Tabernacle. Through her company, Kristen created and produced two seasons of the variety talk show, “The Positive Controversy with Kristen Pope,” to amplify voices not often heard in the media.