{"id":358,"date":"2023-07-17T14:25:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T14:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/?p=358"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:28:10","slug":"why-we-need-more-ladybugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Super Trees to Save Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/06\/08\/1074287\/inside-the-quest-to-engineer-climate-saving-super-trees\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/06\/08\/1074287\/inside-the-quest-to-engineer-climate-saving-super-trees\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough offered good news for the world\u2019s natural landscapes: if this genetic pathway yields more productive crops, we\u2019ll need less farmland, sparing forests and grasslands that otherwise would have to be cleared. As for the plants\u2019 ability to remove atmospheric carbon over the long term, the new trick doesn\u2019t help much. Each year, much of the carbon in a crop plant\u2019s biomass gets returned to the atmosphere after it\u2019s consumed, whether by microbes or fungi or human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the result caught the attention of Maddie Hall, a veteran of several Silicon Valley startups who was interested in launching her own carbon-capture venture. Hall reached out to Donald Ort, the biologist who\u2019d led the project, and learned that the same tweaks might work in trees\u2014which stay in the ground long enough to serve as a potential climate solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/06\/08\/1074287\/inside-the-quest-to-engineer-climate-saving-super-trees\/ The breakthrough offered good news for the world\u2019s natural landscapes: if this genetic pathway yields more productive crops, we\u2019ll need less farmland, sparing forests and grasslands that otherwise would have to be cleared. As for the plants\u2019 ability to remove atmospheric carbon over the long term, the new trick doesn\u2019t help much. Each year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppsp.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}