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Kristine Crous, Senior Lecturer, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University

A fierce battle is being fought in the soil beneath our feet – and the implications for global warming are huge

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As humanity continues to burn fossil fuels, the delicate balance of life on Earth is changing. That’s true of trees, many of which are growing faster as a result of increased carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations in our atmosphere.

But not all trees are responding in this way. In particular, eucalypts – Australia’s iconic forest trees – haven’t benefited from the increase in CO₂ as they were expected to.

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