{
  "id": 9359068,
  "title": "Adding limestone to Mississippi River Basin farmlands acts as a major carbon sink, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/adding-limestone-to-mississippi-river-basin-farmlands-acts-as-a-major",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-23T15:00:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-adding-limestone-mississippi-river-basin.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In a discovery as broad and far-reaching as the Big Muddy itself, a new Yale–led study says farmers in the Mississippi River Basin are storing more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the soil than they emit when they add limestone to their fields, an agricultural practice known as \"liming.\"",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}