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May 25, 2023

Brazil builds ‘rings of carbon dioxide' to simulate climate change in the Amazon

  • Six rings, each with 16 towers, will spray mists of carbon dioxide into the rainforest.
    • By FABIANO MAISONNAVE
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Fernando Crispim [enlarge]
    Workers appear on a tower that will be part of a complex of towers arrayed in six rings to spray carbon dioxide into the rainforest north of Manaus, Brazil.

    RIO DE JANEIRO — In the depths of the Amazon, Brazil is building an otherworldly structure — a complex of towers arrayed in six rings, poised to spray mists of carbon dioxide into the rainforest. But the reason is utterly terrestrial: to understand how the world's largest tropical forest responds to climate change.


     
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