What they found, published on Friday in the journal Science, may mean the accelerating catastrophe of global warming has been fuelled in part by warm dirt. It’s something that’s both hugely influential on global warming and something humanity has a good deal of control over. Scientists aren’t going to resolve the global carbon cycle down to the last atom anytime soon. That’s been changing in ways that should be encouraged, according to another report, in Global Change Biology, also published Thursday. The authors tout as a hopeful example the International Soil Carbon Network, a scientific initiative designed to pool data and identify gaps in monitoring and knowledge.

Source: Mint October 07, 2017 10:30 UTC