In 2019, scientists shut off rain inside Arizona’s Biosphere 2 rainforest for 9.5 weeks; carbon storage fell about 70% before the forest recovered
Exterior showing parts of the rainforest biome and of the habitat, with the West lung in the background | Wikimedia Commons Researchers turned off the water supply to the tropical rainforest inside Arizona’s Biosphere 2 in 2019, and watched the ecosystem respond to an artificial drought. The experiment lasted four months in total, which included…