The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system

AI Coppola, S Wagner, ST Lennartz, M Seidel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Black carbon (BC) is produced by incomplete combustion of biomass by wildfires and
burning of fossil fuels. BC is environmentally persistent over centuries to millennia …

Enigmatic persistence of dissolved organic matter in the ocean

T Dittmar, ST Lennartz, H Buck-Wiese… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) contains more carbon than the combined stocks of
Earth's biota. Organisms in the ocean continuously release a myriad of molecules that …

Singlet oxygen quantum yields in environmental waters

R Ossola, OM Jönsson, K Moor, K McNeill - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Singlet oxygen (1O2) is a reactive oxygen species produced in sunlit waters via energy
transfer from the triplet states of natural sensitizers. There has been an increasing interest in …

Black carbon (biochar) in water/soil environments: molecular structure, sorption, stability, and potential risk

F Lian, B **ng - Environmental science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Black carbon (BC) is ubiquitous in the environments and participates in various
biogeochemical processes. Both positive and negative effects of BC (especially biochar) on …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the long-term effectiveness of biochar immobilization remediation on heavy metal contaminated soil and the potential environmental factors …

J Wang, L Shi, L Zhai, H Zhang, S Wang, J Zou… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently, the research and application of biochar in the remediation of heavy metal
contaminated soil has become a hotspot, especially regarding the remediation of …

New approaches to measuring biochar density and porosity

CE Brewer, VJ Chuang, CA Masiello… - Biomass and …, 2014 - Elsevier
It is clear that the density and porosity of biochar will impact its mobility in the environment,
its interaction with the soil hydrologic cycle, and its suitability as an ecological niche for soil …

Biochar stability in soil: decomposition during eight years and transformation as assessed by compound-specific 14C analysis

Y Kuzyakov, I Bogomolova, B Glaser - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Stability and transformation products of incomplete combustion of vegetation or fossil fuel,
frequently called pyrogenic or black carbon and of biochar in soil, remains unknown mainly …

Fenton chemistry and reactive oxygen species in soil: Abiotic mechanisms of biotic processes, controls and consequences for carbon and nutrient cycling

GH Yu, Y Kuzyakov - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Although most organic matter (OM) in soil is mineralized by microorganisms, the
nonmicrobial processes, eg, Fenton reactions and photo-degradation, strongly contribute to …

Wildland fire ash: production, composition and eco-hydro-geomorphic effects

MB Bodí, DA Martin, VN Balfour, C Santín… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Fire transforms fuels (ie biomass, necromass, soil organic matter) into materials with different
chemical and physical properties. One of these materials is ash, which is the particulate …

Climate shock: the economic consequences of a hotter planet

G Wagner, ML Weitzman - 2016 - torrossa.com
“Climate Shock could have reasonably been called But Will the People Notice? It'sa
layperson's survey of climate economics, a field that includes cost-benefit analysis and other …