There is more carbon in the soil than there is in the atmosphere and all the world’s plants and animals combined. Our management of the land can either build up or degrade this mighty carbon store. Where land is sensitively managed and the web of life in the soil is properly functioning, decomposing plant tissues are converted into new soil, locking the carbon they are made of into the ground. Where soils are degraded, compacted, overgrazed and overworked, they switch from being a carbon sink to a carbon source. Trees get all the press as a tool to fight climate change, but soils have the
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