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What is the Carbon Cycle?
https://carbon.osu.edu/carbon-cycle
The carbon cycle is a complex sys tem involving, in particular, carbon dioxide (CO 2) and organic matter. Atmosphere, vegetation, soils, and the ocean are primary reservoirs of carbon. Plants and soil sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Photosynthesis p ...
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Lal Carbon Center Mantra
https://carbon.osu.edu/about/lal-carbon-center-mantra
"Healthy Soil = Healthy Food = Healthy People = Healthy Ecosystems = Healthy Planet" UNFSS Pre-Summit 2021 Dr. Rattan Lal delivered the mantra (quoted right) for our future and the future of the planet on July 28, 2021 at the UNFSS Pre-Summit. ...
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Fall Feast
https://carbon.osu.edu/events/fall-feast
Please fill out this form here to let us know what dish you plan to bring. Name Dish Lauren Baldarelli Lentil soup Brittany Multer Vegetable Dal Nancy Loria Dal Makhani Carla Gavilan Tres Leches (Dessert) Maggie Willis Salmon/Spinach/Cheese Pinwheels & ...
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Policy challenges to enhance soil carbon sinks: the dirty part of making contributions to the Paris agreement by the United States
ABSTRACT The U.S. government is planning significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions as part of their nationally determined contribution to the Paris Agreement. The plan includes a variety of activities, one of which is enhancing carbon sinks in s ...
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Mongabay: [Commentary] Soil degradation in India spells doom for millions
https://carbon.osu.edu/digest-2/mongabay-commentary-soil-degradation-india-spells-doom-millions
Dr. Lal interviewed for Mongabay with Ramesh Menon. They discuss the imperative to care for the soil so that we may avoid food insecurity for millions. ...
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What is carbon sequestration in soils?
https://carbon.osu.edu/digest-2/what-carbon-sequestration-soils
The term carbon (C) sequestration has not just become a buzzword but is something of a siren's call to scientific communicators and media outlets. Carbon sequestration is the removal of C from the atmosphere and the storage, for example, in soil. ...
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Plowing: Dust storms, Conservation Agriculture, and need for a “Soil Health Act”
The dust storm tragedy on I-55 in central Illinois on May 1, 2023, a reminder of the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, necessitates urgent policy intervention to replace plow tillage with Conservation Agriculture (CA) involving no-tillage with crop biomass mulc ...
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The interplay between microbial communities and soil properties
https://carbon.osu.edu/digest-2/interplay-between-microbial-communities-and-soil-properties
In recent years, there has been considerable progress in determining the soil properties that influence the structure of the soil microbiome. By contrast, the effects of microorganisms on their soil habitat have received less attention with most previous ...
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Wilkins named a top Ohio leader
https://carbon.osu.edu/digest-2/wilkins-named-top-ohio-leader
The Ohio State University's Jackie Wilkins, and one of the original Co-PIs on the C-FARM project for the Lal Carbon Center, has been named one of Ohio's top 50 women leaders in 2023 by Women We Admire, an organization of the most accomplished w ...
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Update for Herbert W. Hoover Stark County Projects
https://carbon.osu.edu/c-masc-fall-2021-newsletter/update-herbert-w-hoover-stark-county-projects
By Srabani Das and Kathleen Bridges – We started our Fall soil sampling, field measurements (OSU) and spectroradiometer measurements (KSU at our 14 sites (12 farms and 2 woods) and are towards completion. The rains got in way of the schedule at times, bu ...