Saturday 3 January 2015

Soil's large carbon stores could be freed by increased plant growth

CLIMATE SCIENCE
Soil's large carbon stores could be freed by increased plant growth
Princeton NJ (SPX) Jan 02, 2015 - An increase in human-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could initiate a chain reaction between plants and microorganisms that would unsettle one of the largest carbon reservoirs on the planet - soil. Researchers based at Princeton University report in the journal Nature Climate Change that the carbon in soil - which contains twice the amount of carbon in all plants and Earth's atmosphe ... more


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