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Orange peels saved a barren forest - and here's what happened next
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Orange peels saved a barren forest - and here's what happened next

Back in 1997, Costa Rican ecologists had a wild idea - what if an orange juice company dumped its waste in a degraded patch of land inside a national park? So Del Oro offloaded over 12,000 metric tons of orange peels and pulp onto the worn-out plot, and the results were frankly mind-blowing. When researchers returned decades later, they found the site had exploded with life - a 176 percent increase in tree biomass, 24 different plant species thriving where there'd been almost nothing, plus wildlife like tayras and a massive fig tree. Now, this discovery is reshaping how scientists think about using agricultural waste to restore tropical forests and fight climate change.
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