Barely a week ago, in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia’s pine belt, a half-dozen workers planted row upon row of twig-like poplar trees. These weren’t just any trees, though some of the seedlings being burrowed into the soggy soil had been genetically engineered to grow wood at swift rates while slurping up carbon dioxide from the air (a bid to fight climate change). The poplars could be the first genetically modified trees planted in the U.S. without a research trial or outside a commercial fruit orchard. Just as the introduction of the Flavr Savr tomato in 1994 introduced a … Continue reading Can Genetically Modified Trees Help Fight Climate Change?