This ancient bit of ingenuity keeps carbon trapped for thousands of years

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By Matt SimonMar 3, 2025, 4:30 am98 ptsTrending
For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest’s soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food. Thousands of years ago, the region’s Indigenous peoples solved this problem by creating “terra preta” from table scraps and charcoal and tucking it away in the…

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