Prof. Ernst Schulze, a forestry science graduate and director of the
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, has received the German Environment Prize for his work on the impact of carbon dioxide on the earth's climate. Schulze and his team of researchers have been able to demonstrate that only half of the carbon released into the atmosphere can be reabsorbed by the land masses and oceans. Another, completely new finding is that large-scale changes of land use, such as the clearing of forests, cause around 25% of global warming.
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