Amazon's black earth. A miracle cure?

Terra Preta, or Amazonian Dark Earth, has long been known for its remarkable biodiversity and fertility. Now a new study by a team of scientists in Brazil has identified what it is that makes Terra Preta so special, and they've also shown that it can be replicated in laboratories to create a restorative additive that could turbocharge the worlds reforestation initiative.

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Research links

Main Research Paper

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-secret-amazonian-dark-earth-forest.html

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoil.2023.1161627/full

How humans shaped the Amazon

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untouched-amazonian-rainforest-was-actually-shaped-humans-180962378/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20humans%20have%20inhabited,for%20at%20least%208%2C000%20years.

Global Forest Watch
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The Great Green Wall Initiative
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-green-wall/

The Bonn Challenge
https://www.bonnchallenge.org/

One Trillion Trees
https://www.1t.org/

Lula's second term

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/01/04/first-day-office-lula-revives-1-billion-fund-amazon/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/10/brazil-amazon-deforestation-drops-in-lulas-first-month-in-office

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