Ecologists Publish Research on Soil's Potential to Increase the Earth's CO2
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - 12:12
in Earth & Climate
Soil, an important part of the carbon cycle, might compound the world's carbon dioxide problem, according to a global study involving Kansas State University researchers and Konza Prairie Biological Station. The study, "Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming," recently published in Nature, predicts that soils may release large quantities of carbon dioxide in response to warming, leading to even faster rates of warming globally.