Measuring carbon flux from soil at Toolik Field Station in Arctic Alaska. Photo by: Jim Tang
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2016
By Diana Kenney
While scientists and policy experts debate the impacts of global warming, the Earth’s soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all human activities combined. This huge carbon flux from soil—due to the natural respiration of soil microbes and plant roots—begs one of the central questions in climate…
