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Adding limestone to Mississippi River Basin farmlands acts as a major carbon sink, study finds

In a discovery as broad and far-reaching as the Big Muddy itself, a new Yale–led study says farmers in the Mississippi River Basin are storing more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the soil than they emit when they add limestone to their fields, an…

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