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The secret superpower of Brazil's vast savanna

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New research reveals that Brazil's cerrado savanna stores six times more carbon per hectare than the Amazon rainforest due to underground peat deposits. This discovery underscores the critical need for protecting the cerrado from climate change and agricultural expansion to preserve biodiversity and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

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