An ambitious project to track greenhouse gases from a perch high above the Amazon forest will provide crucial data — but only if scientists can get it built.
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Tollefson, J. Atmospheric science: A towering experiment. Nature 467, 386–387 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467386a
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