Going underground to understand the yin and yang of carbon in our atmosphere

By Allen Best
How a nearly three-decade long experiment in Colorado is offering clues to how ecosystems respond to global warming, even as it’s shut down due to budget cuts

At the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, the heat lamps that had been strung shoulder-high over five plots in an experiment called Warming Meadows were taken down last July. For 29 years, day and night, winter, spring, summer and fall, electric infrared radiators directed heat downward to warm the top 15 centimetres of soil by about two degrees Celsius.…

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• Whistler News

January 31, 2020

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