Near-record low for June 1 is forecast for overnight across St. Louis
ST. LOUIS • Temperatures will drop tonight to a near a record low, according to the National Weather Service.
Ag at Large: Homemade trees feed on carbon
In Central California near Selma, a 20-acre stand of hollow-trunked, luxuriously leafed trees called MegaFlora are using their manufactured foliage to scrub the air by removing carbon created at a neighboring dairy.
The trees didn’t grow from seeds, nor will they produce any. They were created by botanist Dr. Ray Allen, using sophisticated artificial plant breeding techniques highly dependent on DNA combinations and tissue analysis. His result is a manufactured tree.
...Since they don’t produce a crop, Dr. Allen envisions them as important elements in the cap-and-trade phenomenon gripping the world. The practice has received the blessing of the Legislature in California, the first state in the country to adopt it officially.
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