Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand |

Can scientists hack photosynthesis?   

The world’s crop productivity is stagnating whereas population growth, rising affluence, and mandates for biofuels put increasing demands on agriculture. Meanwhile, demand for increasing cropland competes with equally crucial global sustainability and environmental protection needs. Addressing this looming agricultural crisis will be one of our greatest scientific challenges in the coming decades ... Abstract
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Pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere [artificial air capture] might not be prudent.

Effects of Changing the Carbon Cycle | The Earth Observatory:    

Terrestrial Uptake from the Atmosphere | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: 

                                                    Photosynthesis Accelerated 

Researchers observe and control light wakes for the first time |

For the first time, Harvard researchers have created similar wakes of light-like waves moving on a metallic surface, called surface plasmons, and demonstrated that they can be controlled and steered. The discovery, published today in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, was made in the lab of Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). Read More :