New findings explain how soil traps plant-based carbon

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Feb 5, 2024, 3:00 pm167 pts
When carbon molecules from plants enter the soil, they hit a definitive fork in the road. Either the carbon gets trapped in the soil for days or even years, where it is effectively sequestered from immediately entering the atmosphere. Or it feeds microbes, which then respire carbon dioxide (CO2) into the…

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