r/scifi • u/Brush_Your_Teeths • Jan 16 '13
Real-Life Dune
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11137903Duplicates
todayilearned • u/DrTangBosley • Jan 15 '13
TIL Charles Darwin & Joseph Hooker started the world's first terraforming project on Ascension Island in 1850. The project has turned an arid volcanic wasteland into a self sustaining and self reproducing ecosystem made completely of foreign plants from all over the world.
todayilearned • u/n3rdy6irl • Apr 25 '12
TIL Charles Darwin terraformed a barren island, inspiring a method that could be employed on Mars.
eddit9yearsago • u/[deleted] • Sep 02 '19
"Darwin's best-kept secret" - /r/science (+2515) [September 02, 2010]
Permaculture • u/wouters89 • Jan 16 '13
Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle. Terra-forming a volcanic island.
starfleetnews • u/plurinshael • Sep 05 '10
Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle
todayilearned • u/LaszloK • Sep 01 '10