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transect points: Toronto Star reports on terra preta and terra mulata

paleorthid — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:18:00 -0500

The article highlights some important nuances. Terra mulata, the lighter type of terra preta, covers much more area than the celebrated black type central to the concept of terra preta. Tagged by paleorthid under terra_preta, bio-char, carbon, sequestration, soil, science, innovation, global_warming, climate, agriculture,

transect points: Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming

paleorthid — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 02:40:00 -0500

comment: heartburn over an expectation that the scientific community has promoted that leads us to believe that we can create a significant, persistent sink of carbon by using established farming and forestry approaches. Tagged by paleorthid under soil, science, biology, carbon, sequestration, climate_change, global_warming,

Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming

paleorthid — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:43:00 -0500

The Carbon Coalition started out among growers in the Central West Catchment Management Authority's Farm Systems training program in New South Wales and is expanding to cover Australia and other parts of the globe. The Coalition is a not-for-profit organisation that runs like a business, with the express aim of securing a central role for soil carbon in the credit trading schemes emerging around Greenhouse Gas Emissions abatement. Co-convenors are the Kiely family, woolgrowers from Goolma, NSW. Tagged by paleorthid under agricultural, soil, carbon, CO2, climate_change, global_warming, farm,

Amazonian terra preta can transform poor soil into fertile

paleorthid — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:35:00 -0500

The search for El Dorado in the Amazonian rainforest might not have yielded pots of gold, but it has led to unearthing a different type of gold mine: some of the globe's richest soil that can transform poor soil into highly fertile ground. That's not all. Scientists have a method to reproduce this soil -- known as terra preta, or Amazonian dark earths -- and say it can pull substantial amounts of carbon out of the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, helping to prevent global warming. Tagged by paleorthid under terra_preta,