Trillions of tonnes of carbon locked in soil has been left out of environmental models – and it’s on the move
- Written by: Yuanyuan Huang, Senior Research Scientist, Chinese Academy of Sciences
TaraPatta / ShutterstockWe all know about the carbon in Earth’s atmosphere, and probably about the carbon contained in plants and the bodies of animals. But a substantial fraction of the carbon in the planet’s land-based ecosystems is held in something so obvious we might overlook it: soil.
Even if we do think about carbon in soil, we...