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In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Coal only got there specifically because there was nothing evolved to eat lignin for a long time and dead trees piled up so high that dead trees on top ended up compressing their ancestors into it.

I thought this hypothesis was disproved and it was some geological process that buried the trees? I remember there was a study about lignin content in other fossils and it was compatible with fungi decomposing wood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The trees got buried in oxygen-free peat bogs where decomposers could not survive.