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Home | soil carbon
Phil Robertson smiles at the camera while crouching in an agricultural field at KBS.

Integrated approach to land management unexpectedly boosts U.S. climate mitigation capacity

06.28.22

Nature-based climate solutions like storing carbon in trees and soil are key climate change mitigation strategies, as is bioenergy coupled with geologic carbon storage. A new study from KBS faculty member and Michigan State University ... Read More

A fence runs alongside a pasture where cows are grazing, on Conservation Reserve Program acreage.

$3.4M grant helps Basso, collaborators to quantify benefits of Conservation Reserve Program

12.09.21

When an unproductive swath of farmland is planted with row crops, it results in environmental damage with little to no yield. Instead, farmers can cultivate native plants in those spaces that improve soil health and support other native ... Read More

Headshot photo of Bruno Basso.

Initiative to inventory soil carbon levels earns Basso, collaborator $250K prize

07.01.21

Soils store more carbon than trees, yet forested lands are the source of far more carbon credit sales than are agricultural fields. A innovative collaboration between Michigan State University Foundation Professor Bruno Basso and Kristofer ... Read More

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