We’re continuing to break records as a species. Unfortunately, they are the wrong sorts of records. A case in point: our relentless pumping of CO2 into the atmosphere at breakneck speed. Only last September we reached an environmental milestone by having levels of carbon surpass 400 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere….

All those massive amounts of carbon dioxide we have been belching into the atmosphere have been creating a greenhouse effect, turning up the thermostat worldwide. But here is something else they have been doing: turning plants greener. Does that sound counterintuitive? Perhaps it should not. Plants thrive on carbon dioxide…