Afforestation transforms degraded soils in semi-arid regions, increasing microbial necromass and enhancing soil carbon and nitrogen pools, thereby improving ecosystem health.

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

A decades-long effort to plant shrubs and trees around the Taklamakan Desert, China’s largest desert and one of the driest ...

Researchers are using soil microbe DNA to model how they function and use carbon, helping to better predict and address climate change. A recent study led by a team at the Lawrence Berkeley National ...

Plant and Soil Sciences Ph.D. alumna Elizabeth Smith uses machine learning to investigate soil respiration and the carbon cycle One of the world’s most critical processes is soil respiration. That’s ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are the 'masters of the universe' beneath your feet, forming a 'wood wide web' vital for plant health and soil.

Practice-based carbon programs offer growers a consistent way to engage in regenerative agriculture while supporting ...

This underground universe has a profound effect on the health and vitality of our gardens. Additionally, many home gardeners may not realize this hidden ecosystem plays an important role in ...

Carbon is found all around the Earth, including in our bodies. While most of the carbon can be found in the geosphere, it is also found in all living things, soil, in the ocean, and in the atmosphere.

Current satellite-based estimates may be dramatically underestimating emissions from forest fires by missing the critical ...