Locking carbon up in soil makes more sense than storing it in plants and trees that eventually decompose, argues Johannes Lehmann. Can this idea work on a large scale?
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Lehmann, J. A handful of carbon. Nature 447, 143–144 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/447143a
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