The area boasts the world's warmest ocean temperatures and vents massive volumes of warm gases from the surface high into the atmosphere, which may shape global climate and
air chemistry enough to impact billions of people worldwide.
A solar - panel system generates
enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters
air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for
chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.