Pep Canadell receives funding from the National Environmental Science Program - Climate Systems Hub Yingping Wang receives funding from a GHG project from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, and ...

While the world’s soils are home to lots of organic carbon—such as leaf litter and animal waste—inorganic carbon, which is often in the form of solid carbonates, can also leak into the atmosphere. And ...

Organic carbon decomposition in soil varies significantly and in regional patterns, driven in part by factors such as soil minerals and microbial properties that have been underrepresented in carbon ...

A new global study shows that increasing soil salinity is systematically reshaping the storage and distribution of soil inorganic carbon (SIC), a key but often-overlooked part of terrestrial ...

Earth’s top 2 meters (6 feet) of soil hold 2.5 trillion metric tons of carbon — more than is held in living vegetation and the atmosphere combined. But soil carbon sinks are under threat — global ...

The nonprofit Climate Farmers, an early architect of Europe’s soil carbon credit system, has surprised the regenerative agriculture world by walking away from carbon markets. “We’re stepping away from ...

The upper solum (mollic epipedon) shows a dark color because of the heavy accumulation of organic matter, while the lower solum (calcic horizon) is whitish due to the presence of calcium carbonate.

Soil stores more carbon than Earth's atmosphere and plants combined, which makes the speed of soil carbon's decomposition an important variable in models used to predict changes to our climate.

A new global study shows that increasing soil salinity is systematically reshaping the storage and distribution of soil inorganic carbon (SIC), a key but often-overlooked part of terrestrial ...