Our understanding of plant and tree roots may have been somewhat shallow. New research reveals many plants have a hidden ...

Until now, scientists believed that plant roots were primarily concentrated near the surface. However, research published in ...

Preserving forests to protect deep soil from warming Date: June 14 ... the researchers used vertical heating rods to continuously warm 1-meter-deep (three-foot-deep) plots of soil by 4 degrees ...

Plants and trees extend their roots into the earth in order to draw nutrients and water from the soil—however, these roots ...

It is no secret that the presence of humans has left visible scars on this planet. Be it edging out endangered species with ...

Vargas and his collaborators will conduct experiments on columns of soil up to three meters deep (about 10 feet). Currently, to study soils, scientists often dig pits, which destroys the soil systems ...

This chemically bonded carbon is part of soil’s stable carbon pool, together with carbon that has traveled deep enough in the soil (about 1 meter) to avoid being consumed and respirated into the ...

Deep forest soils lose carbon under experimental warming Experiment shows that even large, old, and presumably stable stores of soil carbon are vulnerable to warming and could amplify climate change.

Preserving forests to protect deep soil from warming An innovative, decade-long experiment in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains shows that carbon stocks buried deep ...