How Much Carbon Do Soils Hold?

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May 4, 2022

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by Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (Climate Now) Soil holds 2x more carbon than vegetation and the atmosphere combined, according to Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced. She is digging beneath the surface with Climate Now to help us understand the complexities of the soil carbon cycle and how soil could help us fight climate change. READ MORE; WATCH VIDEO (one minute)

Buried treasure: Unearthing the power of the soil carbon bank (Climate Now; Podcast)

Excerpt from Climate Now: with Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry, University of California, Merced
Soil – that mixture of degraded bedrock, decomposing organic matter, and microorganisms that nourishes the root systems of plants and trees – already holds twice as much CO2 as the earth’s atmosphere and vegetation, combined. And by changing how we manage our soils, we can increase the rate of CO2 trapping from the atmosphere into that soil carbon bank, and in some cases simultaneously enhance the agricultural productivity of a region.

Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences at University of California, Merced, is a global leader in the carbon storage potential of soils. She sat down with Climate Now to explain why soils are so good at trapping carbon, how much they could hold, and what we can do to increase soil carbon storage. READ MORE

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