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Society and science are debating whether the weathering of rock powder can sequester atmospheric carbon in the long term. However, a team of researchers has now shown that there are still too many unknowns involved. A perspective paper on this topic has now been published.

David Emde et al.: Hydrological Conditions Outweigh Soil Texture, Temperature, and Terrain in German Agricultural Land Use

Laura Sofie Harbo et al.: Soil Organic Carbon Changes in Agricultural Areas of Europe—Synthesis of Repeated Regional Soil Surveys

Map of the reported relative change in SOC in the topsoil

Gokul Prasad Mathivanan et al.: An update of emission factors for nitric oxide emissions from croplands and grasslands

Ronny Seidel, Ullrich Dettmann, Bärbel Tiemeyer: Peatland Surface Motion: Terminology, Measurement Approaches, Models and Insights From a Global Dataset

Excerpt from Figure 2 for purely illustrative purposes.

Neha Begill et al.: Increased Retention of Litter-Derived Organic Carbon With Increasing Initial Carbon Content in Temperate Agricultural Soils

A recent study by the Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture assessed data on soil carbon content and stocks in arable soils under organic and conventional farming in Germany. The surprising finding: the soil carbon in organically farmed fields hardly differs from that in conventionally…

A pit in a field with tools on the ground and a person in the pit taking notes.

Christopher Poeplau et al.: How biased is size fractionation derived mineral-associated organic carbon?

David Emde, Ali Sakhaee, Christopher Poeplau et al.: Site-Specific Drivers of Land-Use Change Effects on Organic Carbon in German Agriculture and Forest Soils