Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage.

Living trees absorb carbon, aiding climate change mitigation. But what role do dead trees play in carbon storage ... sequester and store more carbon in vegetation." Keeton had long suspected ...

The natural process of locking away carbon dioxide (CO 2 ... Researchers found that the levels of CO 2 retained in vegetation through this process, which is known as sequestration, had been ...

By Sean Mowbray Banking on the capacity of global forests to continue storing huge amounts of carbon could put the Paris Agreement climate targets out of reach and incur huge economic costs. That’s ...