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 ...

Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a result, the global soil carbon cycle—by which carbon enters, moves through, ...

Agricultural systems face a dual and often conflicting challenge: sustaining food production while restoring soil functions under climate and land ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered that microbes respire three times as much CO2 from lignin carbons compared to cellulose carbons. When soil microbes eat plant matter, the digested food follows one of two ...

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

A new global study shows that increasing soil salinity is systematically reshaping the storage and distribution of soil ...

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.