This exponential population growth is accompanied by climate change, bringing challenges such as floods, droughts, pests, ...

Increasing wildfires globally release massive carbon emissions, impacting natural carbon sinks and contributing to global ...

Terrestrial carbon sinks grew by 30% from 1992 to 2019, with most carbon stored in nonliving pools, not forests, prompting a call to update climate models. Recent studies have shown that carbon stocks ...

The Brazilian rainforest is thought of as the world’s greatest “carbon sink”, yet our wet Irish peatlands store four times as ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

We’ve pumped huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that needs to be paid back. Large animals like wolves, bison ...

By supporting the functioning of these microorganisms, a substance known as biochar can improve soil’s ability to serve as a much-needed carbon sink. Biochar is a charcoal-like substance made by ...

Finally, soil plays a very important role in mitigating climate change. It is the second-largest carbon sink after the ocean, constantly storing and releasing carbon, which regulates atmospheric CO 2 ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization has highlighted the critical role of soil as a carbon sink. However, climate change impacts global soil conditions, and the European Environment Agency has ...

This nonliving carbon is derived in particular from the excrement and decomposition of dead plants and animals, and eventually becomes food for soil organisms. While the mechanisms by which carbon ...

No-dig gardening is simple. Unlike methods like digging, forking and rotavation, no-dig avoids breaking up, lifting, or ...

A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...