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How can biochar mitigate climate change & improve soil health and land productivity? Researchers explore benefits and propose a path forward for this technology.
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Kirsten Kurtz, manager of the Cornell Soil Health Lab, discusses the Comprehensive Assessment of Soil Health (CASH) test and covers general soil health management concepts.
Soils Revealed is an interactive map that helps policymakers, NGOs, researchers, and land managers visualize ongoing carbon losses from our soil as well as the powerful potential to reverse that trend.
The Earth’s soils contain more than three times the amount of carbon than is found in the atmosphere, but the processes that bind carbon in the soil are still not well understood.