Losses of soil carbon under global warming might equal US emissions
3 institutional releases
Published in Nature · View the paper (DOI)
A new study predicts that global warming will drive the loss of at least 55 trillion kilograms of carbon from soils by mid-century, more than double projected human-related emissions. This loss is expected to be greatest in high latitudes, where cold conditions have allowed massive carbon stocks to build up over thousands of years.
Coverage from 3 institutions
- Losses of soil carbon under global warming might equal US emissions Yale School of the Environment · Nov 30, 2016 · first to report
- Loss of soil carbon due to climate change will be 'huge' Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) · Nov 30, 2016
- Ecologists publish research on soil's potential to increase the Earth's CO2 Kansas State University · Dec 7, 2016