Ascension Island: How a planting project created a lush cloud forest

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe claim under review, reported by Phys.org on October fifteenth, twenty twenty-six: a planting project turned Ascension Island, a small speck in the Atlantic, into a lush cloud forest.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA rock in the middle of nowhere, covered in trees. That's how every horror film starts.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe outlet says it began in the nineteenth century, with efforts by two British scientists, Charles Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker, who stopped at the naval base and documented the island.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwo men with seedlings. And now there's shade. Shade, Vera.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWell, they basically turned barren rock into a thriving ecosystem by planting trees that created their own weather.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNext the clouds will want a mortgage.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo, the rating?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMildly Bonkers, and I hate it. I'll check the island again in a hundred years for rot.