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Apr 2024
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Episode 3: A Long-Awaited Climate Experi...

Scientific American
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Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 
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