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To make agriculture more climate-friendly, carbon farming needs clear rules

  • Written by Laura van der Pol, Ph.D Student in Ecology, Colorado State University
imageSoybeans sprout on an Illinois farm through corn stubble left on an unplowed field from the previous season – an example of no-till farming.Paige Buck, USDA/Flickr, CC BY

As the effects of climate change intensify and paths for limiting global warming narrow, politicians, media and environmental advocates have rallied behind “carbon...

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