Harvard Soil Study
Heated and control plots in a long-term soil warming study at Harvard Forest, Petersham, Mass. Photo by: Audrey Barker-Plotkin
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Carbon Feedback From Forest Soils Will Accelerate Global Warming, Study Finds

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Harvard Soil Study
Heated and control plots in a long-term soil warming study at Harvard Forest, Petersham, Mass.
Photo by: Audrey Barker-Plotkin

Twenty-six-year research project finds cyclical response between soils, climate system

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017

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By: Diana Kenney

After 26 years, the world’s longest-running experiment to discover how warming temperatures affect forest soils has revealed a surprising, cyclical response: Soil warming stimulates periods of abundant carbon release from the soil to the atmosphere, alternating with periods of no…

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