Recent studies have shown that carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems are increasing, mitigating around 30% of the CO2 ...

Forests provide many ecosystem services, including microclimate regulation, biodiversity preservation, air and water ...

It is commonly assumed that as forest ecosystems age, they accumulate and store (sequester) more carbon. A study based at the ...

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Now they are being tapped as a source of environmentally friendly fertilizers that might help reduce the carbon footprint of global agriculture. Building on research at Kyoto University in Japan ...

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.

Heat that biomass up without fully consuming it and it turns to nearly pure carbon known as biochar, which farmers soak in compost or fertilizer to “charge” it with nutrients, then add to ...

But making ammonia, the key ingredient of fertilizers, produces large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions. Chemists have now made a device that produces ammonia by drawing water vapor and nitrogen ...

Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

On Wilbourne Farm in Virginia, a carbon-removal experiment is underway to reveal whether different ways of removing carbon can be even more effective in combination ...