soil carbon

“Soil carbon is a huge carbon reservoir. It holds more carbon than the atmosphere, more carbon than all the terrestrial biomass combined”

“Converting ecosystems that were composed of deeply rooted plants, like perennial grasses, with ecosystems that are managed by humans and composed of Our crop plants, which tend to be fairly short-lived and hence shallow-rooted, and therefore add less carbon to…”

“If you are leaving straw residue on a field and letting it decompose, it actually, a lot of that carbon ends up stored in the soil, up to a certain threshold. So if you start taking it off, you can actually get decreasing soil carbon and that's usually not ref…”