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Degradation of soils over the past 40 years has been due to the depletion of organic matter content, resulting in decreased crop yields. To produce two tonnes of maize per acre, an uptake of nitrogen ...

Methane is responsible for around 30% of global warming. But what are the major global initiatives to address methane ...

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Globally, soils store more than twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. Therefore, carbon uptake and release by soils constitutes a strong regulator of atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas ...

This means that the post-glacial warming drastically accelerated the decomposition of organic matter by microorganisms in soils and caused a much stronger outgassing of CO 2 from (sub-)tropical ...

Abstract: A plasma-catalytic combined reactor system was used to decompose volatile organic compounds. Metal oxide catalysts, as well as Pt-based catalyst, were employed in the studies. The plasma ...