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A new study by an international research team from the Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) demonstrates that ashes produced by fires and transported by wind to lowland tropical forest in Central Africa increase their capacity to remove and sequester carbon dioxide.

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We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated PhD student to join our team contributing to the EJP-Soil project ICONICA. Our research focuses on land-management solutions for carbon neutrality and reduced environmental impacts of agriculture in Europe and elsewhere.

Energy production from biomass combined with the capture and storage of carbon dioxide emitted during the conversion of biomass to energy is a key technology (called BECCS) for removing carbon dioxide. It's direct impact on climate has now been assessed using an Earth System Model.

A number of negative emission technologies (NETs) have been proposed to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Enhanced silicate weathering (ESW) - the spreading of rock dust - is a relatively new NET with considerable climate change mitigation potential, which might be even larger than previously suggested due yet unexplored...

To reach the long-term temperature goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, an active removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and its permanent storage is required - so called negative emissions. This imposes a tremendous global challenge: how can we realize negative emissions at a sufficient scale and pace using technologies that are technically...

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a key option for removing CO2 from the atmosphere. However, the amount of nutrients required to grow plant biomass needed for BECCS questions the sustainability of this climate change mitigation measure.

The rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration leads to a carbon dioxide fertilization effect on plants-that is, increased photosynthetic uptake of carbon dioxide by leaves and enhanced water‐use efficiency (WUE). Using 34‐year satellite observations over tropical and subtropical drylands, we showed that a given amount of soil moisture is...