ENST220

Can soil help mitigate climate change? The top 30 cm of soil stores twice as much carbon as the atmosphere and more than all of Earth's vegetation combined. Understanding how soil captures and retains carbon is essential to reversing global warming trends. This course explores the vital role soils play not only in food production but also in climate change mitigation. Through lectures, discussions, field trips, and literature-based research, students will examine the drivers of climate change, key soil properties, and sustainable soil management practices that can help reduce atmospheric carbon and prevent the worst impacts of climate change.