Simple Summary Microorganisms and their enzymes are crucial to ensuring soil quality,
health, and carbon sequestration. Their numerous reactions are essential for …

Due to their substantial volume, subsoils contain more of the total soil carbon (C) pool than
topsoils. Much of this C is thousands of years old, suggesting that subsoils offer …

This review article aims to acknowledge the multifaceted functions of soil, and given its
status as the largest terrestrial carbon store, to reaffirm its previously established importance …

Abstract The new European Green Deal has the ambition to make the European Union the
first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The European Commission presented an ambitious …

The discovery and development of novel materials in the field of energy are essential to
accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. Bringing recent technological …

Biochar application to soil has the potential to sequester carbon in the long term because of
its high stability and large-scale production potential. However, biochar technologies are still …

The '4 per mille Soils for Food Security and Climate'was launched at the COP21 with an
aspiration to increase global soil organic matter stocks by 4 per 1000 (or 0.4%) per year as a …

Abstract NH 3 and N 2 O emissions account for 79%–94% and 0.2%–9.9% of total nitrogen
losses in composting, respectively. They not only cause serious environmental problems …

Biochar application has multiple benefits for soil fertility improvement and climate change
mitigation. Biochar can act as a source of nutrients and sequester carbon (C) in the soil. The …

Biochar has received increasing attention in agricultural and environmental fields as an
integrated solution to agricultural waste recycling, soil amendment, carbon sequestration …