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What is the total amount of carbon removed from the atmosphere each year by the ocean and land plants? What is the total amount of carbon added to the atmosphere from soil and the burning of fossil fuels? How much will atmospheric carbon change in one year? 1 year? 10 years? 100 years?

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CDR approaches that employ trees, plants and soil to absorb carbon have ... saturated after 10 to 100 years, depending on climate, soil type and how it is managed. ... If we burn plants for energy at a power plant and capture and store ... could be scaled up to capture and store 1 gigatonne of carbon a year ...

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