Study: Agricultural soil can provide a quarter of global carbon sequestration budget

Cecilia Keating
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Study: Agricultural soil can provide a quarter of global carbon sequestration budget

New research sheds fresh light on huge scale of climate benefits associated with soil preservation

Calls are mounting for soil conservation to be pushed up the agenda at the upcoming COP28 Climate Summit, in the wake of fresh research which aims to quantify the huge carbon sequestration benefits associated...

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