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How Soil Could Be One Answer to Help Save the Planet

Soil can store three times the amount of carbon found in the atmosphere.
Ice melts on the Aletsch Glacier in Fiesch, Switzerland, August 12, 2015. One of Europe's biggest glaciers, the Great Aletsch coils 14 miles through the Swiss Alps—and yet this mighty river of ice could almost vanish in the lifetimes of people born today because of climate change.
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The deep, dark depths of the ocean are often called the final frontier—but, according to one researcher, the soils of the Earth are little understood as well.

Some of the soil's mysteries could reveal how to store carbon, and maybe one day, carbon dioxide—a key greenhouse gas that is causing global. In a study published on Monday, Marc Kramer, an assistant professor of environmental chemistry at Washington State University Vancouver, digs deeper into what scientists know about soil, particularly uncovering how soil minerals are associated with carbon storage in soil. 

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