Rising carbon dioxide is greening the Earth - but it's not all good news

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CSIRO's Pep Canadell and Yingping Wang warn that hopes global 'greening' could offset the negative impacts of climate change will prove wide of the mark

Dried lake beds, failed crops, flattened trees: when we think of global warming we often think of the impacts of droughts and extreme weather. While there is truth in this image, a rather different picture...

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