In 1991, Harvard Forest buried heating cables 10 cm deep to warm Massachusetts soil by 5°C; after 26 years, warmed plots had lost 17% of carbon stored in the top 60 cm 2. redundancy
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Wikimedia CommonsHarvard Forest, Massachusetts, United StatesPetersham, Massachusetts, United StatesMassachusetts, United StatesProspect Hill, Massachusetts, United States
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Wed, 2 September 2026
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Beneath a Massachusetts forest, scientists had been deliberately warming the soil for more than two decades to study how rising temperatures affected the carbon stored underground. According to Harvard Forest, the experiment began in 1991 at the Prospect Hill Tract in Petersham, Massachusetts, within an even-aged mixed hardwood forest.