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Soil as Carbon Storehouse: New Weapon Climate Fight?
2014-03-04 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In the 19th century, as land-hungry pioneers steered their wagon trains westward across the United States, they encountered a vast landscape of towering grasses that nurtured deep, fertile soils. Today, just three percent of North Americas tallgrass prairie remains. Its disappearance has had a dramatic impact on the landscape and ecology of The worlds cultivated soils have lost 50 to 70 percent of their original carbon stock. the U.S., but a key consequence of that transformation has largely...
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