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.
Humans produced a record 41.2 billion tons of carbon pollution in 2023. Without the planet’s carbon sinks performing their essential ecosystem services at a normal rate, reaching net zero will not be ...
A leading soil scientist has poured cold water on the idea that agriculture could act as a carbon sink for the rest of the Australian economy. Carbon sink is the term used to describe a site that ...
Known as “carbon sinks,” mangroves, peatlands and boreal forests have helped cool the Earth for thousands of years. By storing billions of tons of CO2 in their soil and vegetation, and locking ...
The release of soil carbon is hugely significant ... quite stable and boreal forests served as a globally important carbon sink. But global heating, which is particularly pronounced in the ...