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Carbon tracking tower put on Scotland's largest saltmarsh
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It will track how much carbon is being taken out of the atmosphere by the saltmarsh on the Solway Firth.
It will track how much carbon is being taken out of the atmosphere by the saltmarsh on the Solway Firth.
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