Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...

Soil chemistry underpins our understanding of carbon dynamics by elucidating the physical and chemical processes that govern the retention, transformation, and eventual long‐term storage of organic ...

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage. Aa Aa Aa ...

A recent study reveals an unexpected link between manganese -- a naturally occurring mineral -- and increased carbon emissions from high-latitude boreal forests. The study uncovers how manganese ...

Keeping carbon buried Holding approximately 2,500 billion tons of sequestered carbon, soil is one of Earth's largest carbon sinks—second only to the ocean. But even though soil is all around us, ...

Carbon capture is the effective use of storing carbon in soil, resulting when carbon gains are more than carbon losses. With ...

Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...

A hidden nutrient in the soil could double the speed at which tropical forests, and their climate benefits, come roaring back ...

Soil, a major global carbon sink, holds more than twice the amount of organic carbon found in vegetation biomass and the atmosphere. As climate change accelerates, understanding the dynamics of soil ...

With 2,500 billion tons of carbon, soil is one of Earth’s largest carbon sinks. The new findings could help researchers predict which soil chemistries are most favorable for trapping carbon — ...

Dirt, it turns out, isn’t just worm poop. It’s also a humongous receptacle of carbon, some 2.5 trillion tons of it — three times more than all the carbon in the atmosphere. That’s why if you ask a ...

Brooke Singer may laugh when she calls herself “a self-taught soil nerd,” but she is quite serious. When Singer looks at soil, she sees something beyond just the microbes, minerals and organic matter ...