The country's first transaction for a carbon sink generated by water loss and soil erosion control took place in December ...

Soil is the largest carbon sink after the ocean and holds more carbon than all terrestrial plant life on the planet. But when we damage the soil, water systems become disrupted, food production ...

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.

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an agricultural system designed to enhance productivity while protecting and conserving the environment. It aims on minimizing soil disturbance, maintaining soil cover ...

Soil helps keep the Earth cooler by absorbing more carbon than it emits, which is why it is considered a carbon sink. But as the climate gets warmer, the soil’s ability to retain carbon ...

Together, the planet’s oceans, forests, soils, and other natural carbon sinks absorb about half of all human emissions, but there are signs that these sinks are under strain. The Arctic ...

Wildfires not only combust vegetation and soil organic matter ... Alarming harbinger' - Asked whether the Arctic's shift from carbon sink to source might be permanent, Rogers said it remains ...

PUNE: The Grasslands Trust and Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) have observed that the soil carbon sink, biodiversity and ecological health in a five-hectare patch ...