S6E1: Won't more CO2 help plants grow?

Plants take in CO2 from the air to grow—and today’s atmosphere has about 50% more CO2 than it did before we started burning massive amounts of fossil fuels. So, is that great news for plants? Prof. David Des Marais, a plant ecologist at MIT, helps answer this listener question.

Credits

Laur Hesse Fisher, Host and Producer
David Lishansky, Editor and Producer
Aaron Krol, Scriptwriter and Associate Producer
Andrew Moseman, Science Reporter
Michelle Harris, Fact Checker
Music by Blue Dot Sessions
Artwork by Aaron Krol