New imaging method views soil carbon at near-atomic scales
December 21, 2020 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. Improving such understanding may help researchers develop strategies for sequestering more carbon in soil, thereby keeping it out of the atmosphere where it combines with oxygen and acts as a greenhouse gas. Angela Possinger, Michael Zachman, Barnaby Levin/Provided Scanning electron microscope image of an aggregate of soil used in this study. A new study describes a breakthrough method fo...
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