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Ancient soils found to contain significant amounts of carbon
2014-05-28 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Soils that formed on Earth's surface thousands of years ago and that are now deeply buried features of vanished landscapes have been found to be rich in carbon, adding a new dimension to our planet's carbon cycle. The finding, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience, is significant as it suggests that deep soils can contain long-buried stocks of organic carbon which could, through erosion, agriculture, deforestation, mining and other human activities, contribute to global climate change. "There...
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