Soils contain two-thirds of the world’s terrestrial carbon (3,000 Pg C). The total annual soil CO2 efflux yearly exceeds the current rate of anthropogenic CO2 emissions from deforestation and burning of fossil fuels by a factor of 10. Subtle changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) processing (...
In their recent Science article, Marcott and colleagues present a reconstruction of Earth’s mean surface temperature over the last 11,300 years – the Holocene. Why is this important? It is the most comprehensive and inclusive reconstruction to date from which to assess how novel our current...