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Background Report: Brazil's underprotected Cerrado savanna stores a staggering amount of carbon, study finds
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The Cerrado, largely overlooked in and policy, is a critical sink, the report says new Feed your curiosity with an exclusive mystery every week, solved with and delivered direct to your inbox before it's seen anywhere else.
This savanna's wetlands also have another superpower. storing in their waterlogged soils. According to a new paper published today in New Phytologist , the Cerrado's wetlands store at a density about six times greater than the Amazon rainforest 's.
The report closes by showing why the issue still matters.
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