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Carbon Farming: A New Cash Crop

President Biden wants to reward farmers for planting crops that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use techniques that keep carbon in the soil.

Jessica Meszaros from member station WUSF reports on what the business of carbon looks like on one small farm in Florida.

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration of more than 400 news outlets committed to better coverage of the climate crisis. This year’s theme is “living through the climate crisis.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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