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Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate Crisis?
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6-29-2008 12:44 PM
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Thanks to my friend, Jeremy Wright, for bringing this excellent article to my attention.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/37621ad0-837c-439b-9ba7-4017ea1a28ba/A1E937B4-5F0D-4C7A-B3F8-656A7FDE465C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?ref=world" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?ref=world" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?ref=world"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/B331A6B6-A015-477F-8394-5AF7ABFE158E" alt="New York Times" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?ref=world"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate Crisis? </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?ref=world"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/9758CE7A-4D2D-4B14-8EC2-DB6CF69BA2D3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?ref=world"><P class="caption"> Experiments indicate that the weedy rice on the right is better able to adapt to climate change than the cultivated rice on the left. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?ref=world"><DIV class="byline">By TOM CHRISTOPHER</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?ref=world"><DIV class="timestamp">Published: June 29, 2008</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?ref=world"><P>Lewis Ziska, a lanky, sandy-haired weed ecologist with the Agriculture Research Service of the <A title="More articles about the U.S. Agriculture Department." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/agriculture_department/index.html?inline=nyt-org">U.S. Department of Agriculture</A>, matches a dry sense of humor with tired eyes. 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