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Recycling biosphere 2.
From:
Popular Mechanics
| Date:
August 1, 1997| Author:
Wilson, Jim
| COPYRIGHT 1997 © Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Columbia Univ has taken over the operation of Biosphere 2 through its Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The biosphere will be used to study future climates, but conditions such as the greater than planned levels of carbon dioxide need to be corrected.
* In the time it takes me to snap a picture of the transplanted rain forest that flourishes inside Biosphere 2, the notebook I set down on a rock has become covered with tiny moving spots.
"Crazy ants," says my guide Ber...
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