Just two links in science update this week-
The International Herald Tribune published this article- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/earth/02trees.html?ref=science by Leslie Kaufman paraphrasing a recent survey of part of a forest in the Eastern USA (specifically Maryland). The article states that it appears that the trees studied are responding to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide by growing faster. This in effect means that they have been soaking up some of the excess carbon dioxide and counteracting global warming, to some extent at least; whether this trend will continue is less clear cut. The scientific study- by Geoffrey C Parker and colleagues was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The second, is this stranger story about swordfish damaging an oil loading pipe line in Angola-
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100202/tod-oukoe-uk-angola-crude-6d5fb3c.html
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