Biochar for Climate Change Mitigation : Fact or Fiction ?
@inproceedings{Ernsting2009BiocharFC, title={Biochar for Climate Change Mitigation : Fact or Fiction ?}, author={Almuth Ernsting and Rachel A. Smolker}, year={2009} }
Soils are extremely diverse and dynamic, playing a fundamental role in supporting communities of plants, detritivores (which break down organic matter) and microbial communities, interacting with the atmosphere, regulating water cycles and much more. As we face the catastrophic impacts of climate change, efforts to “engineer” the climate are proliferating. Among these is a proposal to use soils as a medium for addressing climate change by scaling up the use of biochar. Unfortunately, like other…
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