A 30-year forestry experiment in Australia found that heavily thinned mountain ash forests grew unusually large trees while ...

A field experiment in a subtropical Chinese plantation shows that inorganic and organic nitrogen additions alike reduce soil ...

Forest soils store an estimated 40% of the world's terrestrial carbon, but estimates suggest that around 15–30% of that soil ...

Extreme weather and pollution have increased the salt content in some soil, making growing conditions harsh for salt-sensitive crops like rice. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano detail a possible ...

When farmland is returned to the wild, it shows a striking ability to hold onto the carbon that built up in farm soils over time, retaining this stock for 30 years or more, a unique, long-term study ...

Soil scientists have long treated the deep, stable pool of carbon locked in forest soils as a kind of climate savings account — chemically bound, microbially uninteresting, and safe for centuries. A ...

Watch as common household ingredients create a fascinating chemical reaction that produces a growing "snake" of carbon. This experiment demonstrates decomposition reactions, gas formation, and the ...

New Delhi: Two brothers walk into a 300-acre crumbling tea estate in Darjeeling. Instead of selling it off, they decide to make it the epicentre of one of India’s largest enhanced rock weathering ...