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Soil carbon storage not the climate change fix it was thought, research finds

2016-09-23 02:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Hopes that large amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide could be buried in soils appear to be grossly misplaced, with new research finding that the ground will soak up far less carbon over the coming century than previously thought. Radiocarbon dating of soils, when combined with previous models of carbon uptake, has shown the widely assumed potential for carbon sequestration to combat climate change has been overestimated by as much as 40%. Scientists from the University of California, Irvine...

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