Thirty-year residue trial links soil aggregation to carbon and nitrogen storage
A 30-year field trial in Bihar found that returning all available rice–wheat crop residue increased soil aggregation, raised profile-scale organic ...
Tag: soil carbon
Fire Consumes Ancient Charcoal and Makes Rest More Vulnerable to Decay
A controlled reburning experiment shows that subsequent fires remove preexisting pyrogenic organic matter both by directly combusting it and by ...
Two Decades of Conservation Agriculture Rebuild Soil Structure and Double Surface Carbon in Mediterranean Farmland
A 20-year California field experiment shows that reduced tillage combined with cover crops more than doubles aggregate stability, doubles surface ...
Deep Soil Microbes Reveal Hidden Carbon Strategies Under Seven Years of Warming
A seven-year whole-soil warming experiment in a California forest reveals that soil depth, not temperature, dominates microbial carbon cycling strategies, ...
Rock-Weathered Calcium Emerges as Hidden Guardian of Carbon in Grassland Soils
A new modeling study shows that calcium released by rock weathering helps stabilize organic carbon in grassland Mollisol soils, and ...
Hidden Half of the Forest: New Map Charts China’s Fine Roots Down to Two Meters
Scientists have built the first high-resolution map of fine root biomass across China, resolving root distribution layer by layer down ...
New Method Weighs Fungal Melanin in Soil, Revealing Its Role in Carbon Storage
Researchers in Finland have developed the first liquid chromatography method to directly quantify fungal melanin in soils, finding that melanin ...
Hidden Leaf Fats Reveal How Evergreen and Deciduous Trees Spend Their Carbon
A study of 53 subtropical tree species in China shows that evergreen leaf lipids track structural traits like leaf mass ...
Infrared Light and Explainable AI Reveal How Much Carbon Soil Can Still Store
Australian researchers used mid-infrared spectroscopy and explainable machine learning to accurately predict how much stable carbon soils hold and how ...
Fungal Dead Matter Responds First as Young Forests Rewire Their Soils
A decade-long tree diversity experiment reveals that fungal necromass responds to tree richness and mycorrhizal type years before shifts appear ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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