carbon – envirobites

Can seaweed farming help fight climate change?

February 22, 2018February 21, 2018 Lindsay Green-Gavrielidis 0 Comments agriculture, aquaculture, carbon, Climate Change, coastal erosion, greenhouse gases, ocean acidification, seaweed

Seaweed farming is the fastest growing sector of food production and provides healthy, nutritious sea vegetables. Farming seaweed can also have positive benefits by decreasing wave action, taking up carbon dioxide, and locally reducing the effects of ocean acidification. Spatial planning, market analyses, and infrastructure development are needed to facilitate the expansion of seaweed aquaculture.

Climate Environmental Science

Rejuvenating Agricultural Soils

December 18, 2017 Bianca Ross 0 Comments carbon, carbon cycle, crop residue, greenhouse gases, Soil, soil respiration

Soils play an important role in the global carbon cycle because they can absorb carbon from and emit carbon into the atmosphere. Currently, agricultural soils are not home to very large carbon pools. Recent research investigated the effects of adding carbonized crop residue to soils in agricultural environments in the hopes of finding ways to increase the amount of carbon retained by these soils.