The Washington Post’s Chris Mooney covers 26 years of results from soil warming experiments at Harvard Forest. The research reinforces fears about the possibility of a climate change “feedback” involving the planet’s soils, one that could pile on top of and substantially worsen the ongoing warming trend triggered by the burning of fossil fuels.
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