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Soil Science

Thermokarst landscape on the Tibetan Plateau

Permafrost Collapse Amplifies Climate Change Impact on Soil Carbon Emissions

Soil with CO2 bubbles coming off of it

Project Examines Key Role Soils Play in Keeping the Planet Cool

Penn State graduate student Ryan Trexler collects cores of biocrust from the field before bringing them back to the lab to study.

Soil microbiome, Earth’s ‘living skin’ under threat from climate change

Researchers from Brazil showed that Amazonian dark earth (ADE), soils enriched by Amerindian people thousands of years ago, increases the establishment and growth of seedlings of tree species important for reforestation. By copying the composition of ADE, especially its microbes, reforestation in Brazil and elsewhere could be sped up

Secret Weapon for Reforestation Found in Amazonian Soil

Trees seen from overhead

Tree diversity increases storage of carbon and nitrogen in forest soils, mitigating climate change

Lettuce plants take up chemicals that are released by tyre abrasion: The picture shows the actual experimental setup in which the researchers added tyre abrasion to the nutrient solutions of lettuce plants.

From the road to the plate: lettuce takes up toxic additives from tire wear

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