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This soil is slowly burning, releasing carbon dioxide. The solution? Let water reclaim it

What happens when you bring back water to farm land? In Germany, the government is working on a climate solution that would have farmland turned back into wetlands to reduce carbon emissions.

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Dan Charles is NPR's food and agriculture correspondent.