This High-Tech Greenhouse Tests What Crops Will Survive Climate Change




It may have a glass roof and be filled with plants, but the Advanced Crop Lab at the Durham, North Carolina, headquarters of agricultural biotech firm Syngenta does a lot more than a typical greenhouse. Scientists can program its dozens of rooms with individual climates in order to test new crops that might flourish in our sweltering, drought-filled future. Which means that Nebraska corn can grow at 87 degrees right next door to Brazilian sugarcane at 95—no sweat.



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