Scientists covered an Amazon rainforest plot with 6,000 panels to block half its rain; large trees died and biomass fell by a third |
[ad_1] Deep in the Caxiuanã National Forest in northern Brazil, a patch of rainforest the size of a football pitch tells the story of what a drier Amazon might look like. Since 2002, scientists have suspended nearly 6,000 transparent plastic panels above one hectare of pristine forest, diverting roughly half the rainfall away from the…