In the Americas With David Yetman

Costa Rica: Laboratory of the Biosphere (6x6)

Air date: Jun 08, 2018

Researchers at Biosphere II in Arizona have re-created tropical rainforest in a closed environment to study the effects of climate change. Scientists compare that artificial environment with a tropical rainforest reserve in Costa Rica, a living laboratory where scientists record the effects of global warming on the forest and its dwellers.