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Nature’s independent News & Views commentary describes the Mississippi analysis as showing agricultural lime was a substantial atmospheric CO2 sink rather than a source. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: A widespread agricultural practice is an unexpected CO2 sink · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:ccc53353d9e45e8f8adc48bd67ab56abb6131e91174367fc84bc6aadedb81b1f

However, writing in Nature, Suhrhoff et al. provide a comprehensive analysis of water chemistry in the Mississippi River basin and show that, overall, lime has been a substantial sink, not a source, of atmospheric CO2. This finding makes agricultural liming, in effect, a strategy for CO2 reduction.