Living Carbon: Biotech raises $15M to develop hybrid trees to combat global warming

Despite doing it for millions of years, trees are relatively inefficient at capturing carbon. Living Carbon says it has taken a big step toward changing that. The San Francisco startup published research on Wednesday showing that it has developed a way to make the photosynthesis process better so leaves and their woody stalks can catch up with the pace of human-created emissions. Doing so can help a tree not only capture more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but also store it for longer periods,...