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Episode 1: Will the Amazon Help Save the Planet?

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Years in the making, a project in the Amazon rain forest is finally set to determine whether a rise in carbon dioxide could save one of the world’s largest carbon sinks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:08.0

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0:21.1

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0:23.7

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. In 2016 I got a ride on the Pothold Highway north out of Manaus Brazil in the Central Amazon.

0:48.0

After an hour, my driver shifted down and swung our pickup onto a dirt road.

0:53.4

For the next 20 miles we dodged axle-deep ruts and fallen trunks.

0:59.9

This was my first of many subsequent visits to a rustic ecological station known simply as ZF2.

1:07.0

I'm Daniel Grossman and this is science quickly.

1:18.0

I'd come to see the early stages of what's been called one of the most remarkable and highly anticipated climate experiments.

1:23.0

Starting in 2013, researchers had staked out two circular plots,

1:29.0

each the size of a baseball diamond,

1:32.0

a vine-draped 10-story tall trees.

1:36.2

They'd measured and tagged every trunk

1:38.6

bigger than a fence post.

1:40.4

After years of anticipation, the experiment had raised its sales and seemed ready to launch.

1:47.0

And then it ran out of cash.

1:50.0

It was put on hold for half of the next decade, but finally now it's back and its equipment

1:58.8

is about to be turned on.

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