Quirks & Quarks, CBC Radio
One of the most powerful tools at our disposal to get rid of some of the excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is in our forests.
In one of the world's largest and longest-running experiments, researchers working in tropical forests in Panama discovered that by adding nitrogen to the soil, they could speed up tree growth to pull more carbon out of the atmosphere, more quickly.
The work was led by Sarah Batterman, an associate scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, and associate professor at the University of Leeds, and the work was published in the journal Nature Communications.
