co2 pollution Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:23:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Carbon Dioxide Increases Crop Yields but Reduces Nutritional Content https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-dioxide-increases-crop-yields-but-reduces-nutritional-content-20121211/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-dioxide-increases-crop-yields-but-reduces-nutritional-content-20121211/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:23:55 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29658 At the very minimum, we all learned in school that sunlight drives plant photosynthesis, which converts carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen. This is really great news, because sunlight is abundant, and where water is abundant, photosynthesis produces oxygen for us to breathe, and in the case of crops, food for human and […]

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