{"id":6904,"date":"2023-08-24T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2023-08-24T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:48:06","slug":"climate-change-even-affects-photosynthesis-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/08\/24\/climate-change-even-affects-photosynthesis-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change even affects photosynthesis, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"asset asset-text\"><span>This 3.8 billion year old process also\u00a0 <\/span><span>photosynthesis is threatened\u00a0<\/span><span>global warming<\/span><span> And this is already affecting the leaves of the trees in\u00a0<\/span><span>tropical forests<\/span><span> , which are threatened with &quot;\u00a0<\/span><em><span>massive die-off<\/span><\/em><span>&quot;. This is revealed by a study published in\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Nature<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0on Wednesday, August 23. It was carried out by American, Australian, Brazilian and British scientists. <\/span><span>They used ground, satellite and modeling data to assess leaf condition\u00a0<\/span><span>tropical forests<\/span><span>\u00a0 around the world and their thermal limits. The result: from an average temperature of 46.7\u00b0C, their photosynthesis begins to decline seriously. Currently, about 0.01 % leaves are affected by this phenomenon. However, scientists predict a generalization if the situation does not change. &quot;\u00a0<em>\u00a0If we do not respond to climate change and air temperatures in tropical forests increase by more than 4\u00b0C, we could see massive leaf dieback and tree mortality,<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0&quot; explained the scientist responsible for the study Christopher Doughty. (<em>Margaux Lamoulie)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 3.8 billion-year-old process of photosynthesis is also under threat from global warming. And it is already affecting the leaves of trees in tropical forests, which are at risk of \u201cmassive die-offs.\u201d This is revealed in a study published in Nature on Wednesday, August 23. It was carried out by American, Australian, Brazilian and British scientists. They used ground, satellite and modeling data to assess the state of leaves in tropical forests around the world and their [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}