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A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change

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Ning Zeng and his colleagues were digging a trench in the Canadian province of Quebec .

They planned to fill with 35 metric tons of wood, cover with clay soil, and let it sit for nine years .

But during excavation, they unearthed a pristine, twisted log that was very old, older than anything they could have possibly produced in their experiment.

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informal

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English

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long-living

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