Earth In 10,000 Years

Lizzie Wade, The Atlantic: Technology
Wed, 09/02/2015 - 5:47pm

Earth in 10,000 Years

A few years ago in a lab in Panama, Klaus Winter tried to conjure the future. A plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, he planted seedlings of 10 tropical tree species in small, geodesic greenhouses. Some he allowed to grow in the kind of environment they were used to out in the forest, around 79 degrees Fahrenheit.

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