Airtight box and plant experiment ends in blinding headaches
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 15:00
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Iain Stewart, a professor of geoscience at Plymouth University, spent the weekend carrying out an experiment in Cornwall at the Eden Project. Stewart was locked in an airtight chamber for 48 hours with nothing but plants to provide his oxygen. The experiment was filmed for a BBC series, How Plants Made the World.