Seaweed Cannot Save Us: Land Ecosystems Are Functionally Saturating
A new review argues that Earth is undergoing functional saturation, where land ecosystems are losing ecological capacity faster than marine ...
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Two Decades of Conservation Agriculture Rebuild Soil Structure and Double Surface Carbon in Mediterranean Farmland
A 20-year California field experiment shows that reduced tillage combined with cover crops more than doubles aggregate stability, doubles surface ...
Straw or Biochar? Scientists Uncover Two Distinct Routes to Carbon-Rich Saline Soils
A two-year field experiment in China's Yellow River Delta shows that straw and biochar both raise soil organic carbon in ...
Rust Coats on Rice Roots Turn from Carbon Vaults into Greenhouse Gas Engines
A new study shows that iron plaque on rice roots first preserves soil organic carbon but later fuels iron-reducing bacteria ...
Nitrogen Fertiliser Cuts Carbon Loss on Farms but Slows Recovery in Grassland Soils
A 47-year Hungarian field experiment shows nitrogen fertiliser prevented about 90 percent of soil carbon loss under cropping but slowed ...
Ponds With Richer Life Work Harder: Massive European Survey Links Biodiversity to Healthier Ecosystems
A survey of 206 European ponds shows that richer aquatic biodiversity strongly boosts ecosystem multifunctionality, while nutrient pollution from intensive ...
Farming Practices That Boost Wheat Yields May Leave Soil Carbon Less Stable, Seven-Year Study Finds
A seven-year field experiment shows that nitrogen fertilization, straw incorporation, and plastic film mulching raise wheat yields and soil organic ...
Biochar Supercharges Soil Structure by Rewriting the Invisible Forces Between Particles
A year-long field experiment in China shows that biochar stabilizes soil aggregates by raising readily oxidized and particulate organic carbon, ...
Decades of Nitrogen Pollution Quietly Rewire How Grassland Soils Store Carbon
A twelve-year nitrogen addition experiment on China's Loess Plateau shows that long-term nitrogen enrichment shifts grassland topsoil carbon from fast-cycling ...
Mud-Dwelling Seafloor Animals Quietly Steer Carbon Storage in the North Sea
A large-scale survey of the southeastern North Sea's muddy seafloor shows that environmental gradients shape benthic communities in ways that ...
Hidden Engineers of the Forest Floor: Shrubs Rewire Soil Carbon and Nutrient Cycling
A study of Polish pine forests shows that hazel, buckthorn, and rowan shrubs each leave distinct biochemical fingerprints on soil ...
Biochar Meets Compost: Why the Hyped Soil Fix Isn’t a Climate Silver Bullet
A new critical review finds that combining biochar with compost can improve soil health, but claims of synergistic climate benefits ...
Plant Diversity, Not Microbes, Drives Soil Carbon Storage Along Mountain Slopes
A study along nearly 3,000 vertical meters of the Tianshan Mountains finds that plant diversity, acting through productivity rather than ...
Infrared Light and Explainable AI Reveal How Much Carbon Soil Can Still Store
Australian researchers used mid-infrared spectroscopy and explainable machine learning to accurately predict how much stable carbon soils hold and how ...
Magnetic Trick Reveals That Rising Soil Carbon May Be an Illusion
A new magnetic separation method shows that increases in particulate organic carbon after straw and biochar application largely reflect undecomposed ...
Mixed Mediterranean Forests Store More Soil Carbon, But Only in the Fast Lane
A study of Israeli Mediterranean forests finds that mixed tree stands store about 6.1 megagrams more soil carbon per hectare ...
Eleven Years of Soil Data Reveal Cracks in Carbon Accounting Models
An eleven-year field experiment in a Spanish organic olive grove shows that the widely used RothC model overestimated soil carbon ...
Fast-Growing Soil Microbes Emerge as Key Drivers of Carbon-Releasing Priming Effect
A new cybernetic modeling study shows that fast-growing copiotrophic microbes and their interactions with non-degrading neighbors determine whether fresh organic ...
Living Soil Crusts Turn Gentle Tillage Into a Carbon Trap in China’s Fading Black Soils
New research from China's Northeast black soil region shows that reduced tillage preserves biological soil crusts that boost stable microbial ...
Restoring Tibet’s Degraded Grasslands Rewrites the Genetic Recipe for Soil Carbon
A metagenomic study of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau grasslands shows that six years of active restoration boosts soil carbon, but the gains ...
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