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- 1AmazonFACE experiment to probe forest's CO2 future●"The rings mark the site of the Amazon Free-Air CO2 Enrichment Experiment (AmazonFACE), which is set to launch in the ne
Construction is underway for AmazonFACE, a decade-long experiment in the Amazon rainforest that will pump elevated levels of carbon dioxide over plots of forest marked by large rings of towers. Set to launch in the coming months, the project aims to reveal how the world's largest rainforest might respond to future atmospheric CO2, testing whether it will keep absorbing carbon or reach a tipping point.