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Sowing common ground: Botanical gardens tell the story of climate change

Onions grow in a greenhouse set to mimic expected average temperatures for the year 2050 in the Climate Change Demonstration Garden at Cornell University on Aug. 29, 2017, in Ithaca, N.Y.

Tucked in the back corner of the Pounder Vegetable Garden at Cornell University sits a small greenhouse. The August sun beats down on the structure, raising the temperature inside to 85 degrees F. – a jump above that day’s outside temperature of 72 degrees. 

Onion stalks collapse on top of each other in one of the greenhouse’s six

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