Research has shown that decreasing the number of times you mow the lawn can help create more biodiverse ecosystems, lower carbon emissions, build soil organic matter, and encourage lawn flowers to ...

Reviving floodplain wetlands slashes carbon emissions by 39% and restores critical ecosystem functions in one year—without ...

Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide limits soil storage Date: April 15, 2015 Source: Department of Energy, Office of Science Summary: Soil carbon may not be as stable as previously thought ...

June 7 (UPI) --Across the globe, just a handful of common bacteria taxa account for the use of carbon in the soil. According to a new survey, published Monday in the journal Nature Communications ...

Because carbon is stored in the soil, it is not released back into the atmosphere when grasslands burn, as it is when trees go up in flames. The land, outside Mount Vernon, Tex., is a registered ...

Collectively, all that grass plays a critical role in ecological processes such as absorbing and filtering water, sequestering carbon and providing habitat for an array of creatures. advertisement ...

Soil Sequestration Grass absorbs carbon dioxide the same way trees do, but on a smaller scale. Through photosynthesis, each plant takes carbon from the atmosphere and uses it to build more plant ...

Different soil microbial groups play distinct roles in the carbon cycle. "The model's ability to simulate bacterial and fungal dynamics improves our understanding of the soil microbial community's ...

The governor who's castigating the president on climate change 13:27. Overall, soil releases about nine times more carbon than human-caused activities, but that's part of a natural cycle when the ...

An improved variety of grass combined with a rotational grazing system can boost levels of soil carbon on tropical savannas by 15 percent compared to degraded pasture, a new study performed by the ...

The carbon, or "organic matter" content of this soil on Del Ficke's farm has more than doubled since he changed his farming practices. Dan Charles Change #1: Ficke now has plenty of company.