When farmland is returned to the wild, it shows a striking ability to hold onto the carbon that built up in farm soils over time, retaining this stock for 30 years or more, a unique, long-term study ...

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

Tropical forests exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial biome, meaning that even a relatively small shift in the balance of carbon uptake and release there could have a big ...

Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) is trialing an innovative use for petroleum coke, a carbon-rich refining byproduct, to enhance soil fertility in forest ecosystems as part of its broader decarbonization and ...

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A Brazilian researcher is working with Mexican farmers to test soils using biochar: a carbon-rich material showing promise in increasing water retention and fertility. Biochar is a porous, solid ...

Beneath every garden bed, farm field, and forest floor, a single teaspoon of soil teems with billions of microorganisms, a ...

Facing closure under the Trump Administration, more than 50 forest experts and supporters of the Bartlett Experimental Forest ...