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Put more carbon in soils to meet Paris climate pledges
Air pollution in Sumatra in 2013, where peatlands were burned to clear land for a palm-oil plantation. Credit: Ulet Infansasti/Greenpeace
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Nature 564, 32-34 (2018)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07587-4
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