A study by Kansas State University researchers shows that organic farming practices, such as using manure and compost ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 5 (2016), pp. 1839-1852 (14 pages) Carbon in surface waters is widely recognized as a key element that influences nutrient cycling, metal availability, and ...

Moreover, we observed a concurrent increase in labile carbon content in the 2-year ley treatment ... surpasses the COP21 global target of a 0.4% annual increase in soil organic carbon. These findings, ...

Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage. Aa Aa Aa Organic matter is a key component of soil that affects its physical, chemical, and biological ...

A team of Earth scientists at Lanzhou University, working with a group of organic chemists from Nanjing Agricultural ...

A study carried out at the University of Helsinki demonstrates that boosting plant diversity in agriculture can increase ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment ... convert it to particulate and ...

Soil is important to each of us in our everyday lives, but too often we think about it as just dirt! Soil is the special link between plants and humans. It feeds us, captures carbon and provides a ...

Soil fertility is the ability of soil to sustain plant growth and optimize crop yield. This can be enhanced through organic and inorganic fertilizers ... nitrogen fixation by leguminous crops. The ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

Here's how it works: This gecko is part of the fast carbon cycle. Credit: Leon Pauleikhoff/Unsplash The fast carbon cycle is concerned with living things. Carbon is found in organic matter (carbon ...

Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage. Aa Aa Aa Organic matter is a key component of soil that affects its physical, chemical, and biological ...