
OpinionMarch 14, 2021
How Dirt Could Help Save the Planet
Farming practices that retain carbon in the soil, or return it there, would limit both erosion and climate change
Jo Handelsman is director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a former science adviser to President Barack Obama. She is author of the book A World Without Soil, forthcoming from Yale University Press.

How Dirt Could Help Save the Planet
Farming practices that retain carbon in the soil, or return it there, would limit both erosion and climate change

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