Michigan State University research studying the long-term impact of agricultural practices on soil organic matter has reached ...

"What happens is the carbon in the soil (black mineral carbon and organic carbon) is far more than all the carbon in the air. Soil carbon is leaking because we are not growing enough crops to ...

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.

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

Looking at the history of Wisconsin, Huang said the impact of being able to model the changes in soil organic carbon for farmers could be enormous. Wisconsin is one of the few places on Earth where ...

Black soil, characterized by its dark topsoil, is considered the "food basket" of the world because of its rich organic carbon and high degree of productivity. It contributes to 25 percent of China's ...

Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) are strongly influenced by ...

Black soil, characterized by its dark topsoil, is considered the "food basket" of the world because of its rich organic carbon and high degree of productivity. It contributes to 25 percent of ...