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    What a view: More starlit skies and a mapped ocean floor

    by Erika Page Jul 27, 2022 3 minutes

    There’s progress from the skies to ocean depths – and in between. The cooperation of neighbors in Rio de Janeiro to grow food near home has led to plans to knit together separate green spaces to make a large city farm. 

    1. Brazil

    Rio de Janeiro is building the world’s largest urban garden following success with community gardening. Large-scale community gardens have thrived in vulnerable neighborhoods of the city in recent years, even transforming a former dump into organic plots of cassava and other vegetables.

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