Chris Clarke is equally surprised. At this rate, we'll have a tropical rainforest there soon.
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This week's Ask A ScienceBlogger is about the rainforest:
We heard quite a bit about rainforest destruction in the 80's and 90's. Even the Grateful Dead joined the efforts to raise awareness and gather support for rain forest preservation. In the past, the Dead stayed away from political activism because (quoting Jerry Garcia):
A reader made a generous donation to one of the projects in my challenge in the name of Connor S. (age 8) from Conshohocken, PA. Connor S.
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Amazing and i can't get it to grow in my backyard.
It was a tropical paradise a mere 70 Mya.