Next month, an international group of soils and water experts will meet at Uppsala, Sweden to lay bare what is known and—critically, what is not—about mineral weathering or the naturally occurring release of essential plant nutrients by breakdown of minerals from forest soils and rocks. They hope to come away with an encompassing view of the best available science, which will be summarised in a scientific article and used to guide a large stakeholder workshop in November designed to inform...

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By David Ellison, Mattias Lundblad and Hans Petersson

Since 2008, the AWG-KP (the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under...



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The forests of the world supply a significant amount of moisture that creates rain. A new study published in Global Change Biology reveals how this...

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