Dr Claire AsherIn my latest feature for @mongabay, I look into the current state and future prognosis of the soil carbon sink.
It stores an astonishing 2.5 trillion metric tons of carbon (in just the top 2m!), but is at risk of becoming a net CO2 source as the climate warms. https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/soil-carbon-crucial-ally-or-potential-threat-to-net-zero-commitments/ #Ecology #Climate #Soil #NetZero
Soil carbon: Crucial ally or potential threat to net-zero commitments?
The daily destruction of nature’s carbon stores is happening right before our eyes, as forests are ravaged by catastrophic wildfires and vast tracts of wildlands are cleared for agriculture. But even greater stores of carbon lie hidden beneath our feet, and they too are under threat. The world’s soils are a gigantic carbon sink that […]