Soils represent important pools of soil organic carbon (SOC) that can be greatly influenced by labile C inputs, which are expected to increase in future due to CO₂ enrichment of atmosphere and a ...

Whether carbon comes from leaves or needles affects how fast it decomposes, but where it ends up determines how long it's available. In one of the few such studies, scientists examined how dead leaves ...

Recognizing that climate change is “the challenge of our lifetime” and that farming and livestock contribute nearly 10% of greenhouse gas emissions in the US, Horizon Organic is taking a three-prong ...

Dairy is known for its carbon footprint—partly because of the impact of growing cattle feed, and partly because cows’ belches and manure emit methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But by 2025, the dairy ...

Soil on hilltops in this photo is lighter in color, revealing a loss of fertile topsoil. (Evan Thaler for NPR) Farming has destroyed a lot of the rich soil of America's Midwestern prairie. A team of ...

Farming has destroyed a lot of the rich soil of America's Midwestern prairie. A team of scientists just came up with a staggering new estimate for just how much has disappeared.. They say that the ...