The input of fresh organic matter, and the induced priming effect (PE), has long been recognized as a critical regulator of ...

With only 7.5% of Earth's surface covered in fertile, agricultural soil, it's critically important to maintain the soil to grow food, filter water, and regulate the climate. Today, Bay Area scientists ...

Deep in Iraq's southern desert, bulldozers and earthmovers spread layers of moist clay over sand dunes as part of a broader ...

Considered natural allies against climate change due to their absorption of carbon dioxide, plants may however offer more ...

Global and continental SOC change trends under the SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5 scenarios with 11 global climate models of ACCESS-CM2, ACCESS-ESM1-5, BCC-CSM2-MR, CanESM5, GFDL-ESM4, INM ...

From kalo to cacao, farmers are adapting to effects of a changing climate by fusing traditional Hawaiian practices with new, regenerative agricultural techniques to save soils, streams and reefs.

Jess Davies receives funding from the UK Research and Innovation Councils and she is a scientific panel member of the United Nations Environment Programme International Resources Panel. The UN climate ...

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 ...

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.

Deep in Iraq's southern desert, bulldozers and earthmovers spread layers of moist clay over sand dunes as part of a broader ...