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Wetlands in Brazil's Cerrado are carbon-storage powerhouses
- March 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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The Amazon rainforest is famous for storing massive amounts of carbon in its trees and soils, helping regulate the global climate. Yet a paper published in New Phytologist shows that one of South America's largest carbon-storing ecosystems exists in an often-overlooked grassy savanna: the Cerrado in Brazil.
Originally published at Phys.org