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E&S is exploring possibilities for forest restoration projects designed to enhance carbon sequestration and ecological function through nature-based climate solutions such as enhanced rock weathering (ERW) and biochar production. Nature-based climate solutions can provide more energetically and economically efficient alternatives for carbon dioxide removal and storage relative to human-engineered carbon removal technologies by leveraging biotic and abiotic uptake and storage in aboveground biomass, soils, and drainage water. A primary goal of our work is to estimate practical carbon capture potentials to inform decision-making at the state and national level. This work is being developed in coordination with EPA’s Office of Research and Development and university colleagues and will focus on evaluating broad-scale implementation of forest soil amendments as a nature-based means of carbon sequestration, while reversing long-term trends in decreasing soil health and forest productivity, among other co-benefits.

 

Image from Buss et al 2021

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