Carbon farming: how agriculture can both feed people and fight climate change

• Imagine “carbon emissions”, and what springs to mind?

Most people tend to think of power stations belching out clouds of carbon dioxide or queues of vehicles burning up fossil fuels as they crawl, bumper-to-bumper, along congested urban roads.

• Richard Lindsay
• The Conversation

But in Britain and many other countries, carbon emissions have another source, one that is almost completely invisible.

In the UK, these overlooked emissions come from our most extensive semi-natural habitat, yet it is a habitat which is almost invisible within the national consciousness.

The source of these emissions can be seen in the rich black peat soils of the…

• Carbon farming: how…