Daniel Grossman: Several dozen people pile out of a charter bus into a clearing in the central Amazon jungle. They’ve driven to a research site

A Singular Climate Experiment Takes Shape in the Amazon

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Daniel Grossman: Several dozen people pile out of a charter bus into a clearing in the central Amazon jungle. They’ve driven to a research site called ZF2 from Manaus, the Amazon’s largest city. It’s October 2023.

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Grossman: They’re the scientific advisers for one of the largest—and some say most important—ecological experiments in the world, now in its final stages of construction. Beto Quesada, an ecologist and one of the three leaders of the project, herds them into a semicircle.

Grossman: I’m Daniel Grossman, and this is Science, Quickly. Today we present the second of three episodes about AmazonFACE—FACE is an acronym I’ll explain later—an experiment that could help forecast the future health of the Amazon forest—and the rest of the planet as a result.