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Conventional, or chemically-led, farming has been developed over the past

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Tree planting has been widely promoted as a solution to climate change, because plants absorb the climate-warming gases from Earth’s atmosphere as they grow.

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Climate change is defined by more than just rising temperatures and ever-encroaching sea levels; the myriad factors at play are complicated, and — to make matters even more complex — they often interact with one another. Let’s take soil, for instance.

Soil biology is the study of microbial and faunal activity and ecology in soil. Soil life, soil biota, soilfauna, or edaphon is a collective term that encompasses all organisms that spend a significant portion of their life cycle within a soil profile, or at thesoil-litter interface.

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Conservation practices like no-till that save soil are also good for water quality, right? In many ways that’s true, but not in the case of nitrates and no-till.