A recently released report has found that the presence of calcium in soil can cut CO2 emissions by half and thereby slow ...

Plants, trees, and soil absorbed almost no net CO2 last year. If this continues, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.

At the heart of all life, carbon is an indispensable element that forms the foundation of existence. It is the linchpin of a ...

At high altitudes, global warming is having its strongest effect on winter temperatures – and that might mean soils there ...

American forests are important sources of carbon sequestration, storing millions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. However, a unique experiment led by Peter Reich, University of Michigan professor ...

A very important part of the success of this project is an understanding of the soil food web, in other words, how organisms ...

What they found was that when the nutrients were first added, they stimulated microbial decomposition — a natural process ...