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Nature 448, 396-397 (26 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448396b; Published online 25 July 2007
Carbon sinks threatened by increasing ozone
Michael Hopkin
Rising levels of ozone pollution over the coming century will erode the ability of plants to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a new climate-modelling study predicts.Ozone is already known to be a minor greenhouse gas, but the new calculations highlight another, indirect way in which it is likely to influence global warming by 2100.
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