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And now researchers have found that soil texture also plays an important role in how readily carbon is sequestered underground: Coarse soils are substantially more vulnerable to releasing their carbon than previously believed. Many people think of the world’s forests or atmosphere as containing the largest planetary stockpile of carbon, said Iain P. But it’s […]

Wildlife and open-canopy ecosystems like grasslands are rarely a part of discussions surrounding climate change mitigation. The idea that herbivores are necessarily bad for carbon storage because they consume and disturb vegetation is “far too simplistic and risks poor land management decisions with bad consequences for biodiversity,” said Jeppe A. By increasing the amount of […]