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Gabon plumbs carbon mystery of its mighty mangrove trees
The towering trees in Gabon's impenetrable mangrove swamps have helped to make the Central African country one of the world's few net absorbers of carbon as the plants sequester the greenhouse gas four times faster than forests on land.
Source: reuters.com