Carbon-Fueled Climate Change Is Responsible for so many terrifying things already. Now we may have to add one more to the list: bodysnatchers. Well, not bodysnatchers, exactly; more like plant-snatchers. But there's still something horrific about what happened to some normal-seeming rice plants in one recent study. Scientists from the U. S. Department of Agriculture grew a feral, "weedy" form of rice alongside a cultivated form in controlled environments that reflected carbon dioxide levels of a century ago, the present, and (based on projections) the coming decades.
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