Understanding the mechanisms controlling forest carbon accumulation is crucial for predicting and mitigating future climate change. Yet, it remains unclear whether the dominance of ectomycorrhizal (EcM) trees influences the carbon accumulation of entire forests. In this study, we analyzed forest inventory ...
Our results showed that soil organic carbon (SOC) mineralization rates and the amount of SOC mineralized significantly was increased after the conversion of cropland into grassland due to the increase in labile C fraction. At the end of the incubation study, 2.1%–6.8% of the initial SOC was...
Several natural and engineered methods of delivering CDR have been proposed in the literature. These include: afforestation or reforestation (AR); bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS); direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS); ocean fertilization (OF); enhanced weathering of mineral...
An important, but understudied, dimension of plant functional variation is plant associations with different mycorrhizal fungal partners5,6. Mycorrhizas can shape the spatial distribution of plant diversity7,8, nutrient cycling9and carbon storage10,11, and have been reported to mediate plant diversity ...
Litter decomposability determines litter mass loss rate, but how it affects soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) storage remains elusive. We compiled data from 25 litter decomposition studies tracing the fate of C and N during decomposition using stable C and N isotopes. An average of 24% of C...
COP28 chief urges energy groups to prepare for fossil fuel ‘phase down’; Head of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company pushes for investment in decarbonisation Attracta Mooney and Simeon Kerr – Financial Times Sultan al-Jaber, president-designate of this year’s UN climate summit, ...
They need much more attention as we project the fate of forests and grasslands to the changing atmosphere,” stated Jackson, who is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. The study indicates that grasslands might take up unpredictably huge amounts of carbon in...
For the most effective energy management, it is necessary to introduce energy storage in the power systems, as power grids are not adapted to the storage of electricity surplus [5]. In this regard, renewable-based synthetic fuels carrier will play a key role in decarbonising energy systems ...
A carbon-nanotube-based tensor processing unit Article22 July 2024 Main Owing to the proliferation of the Internet of Things and 5G, the global data volume has grown exponentially, reaching 64.2 zettabytes in 2020 and is projected to reach 181.0 zettabytes in 2025 (ref.1). Big data ...
Rapid growth of renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind energy is a powerful driving force for cost effective and long-term storage of large amount of renewable energy. There are varieties of different energy storage systems (ESS) readily available in the markets. Major forms of ...