Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Large-scale #climatechange projects are giving scientists a window into how rising temperatures and increased carbon dioxide could alter ecosystems in the future.

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, the director of @Energy's Office of Science, recently visited two projects led by ORNL.

On a peat bog in northern #Minnesota, she toured the Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments, or SPRUCE, project.

From the #peatlands to the #permafrost, she then traveled to #Alaska to visit the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments, or NGEE Arctic.

Learn more about these experiments:

SPRUCE: mnspruce.ornl.gov
NGEE Arctic: ngee-arctic.ornl.gov