{"693056":{"#nid":"693056","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Agricultural Liming Is a Carbon Sink","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFor most of the industrial era, spreading crushed limestone across farmland has been treated as a carbon problem. The rock contains carbon; it ends up in contact with air and water, and by the most conservative accounting conventions, carbon is assumed to escape as carbon dioxide. Regulators and major climate assessments have baked that assumption into their default rules for decades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-11040-2\u0022\u003Estudy published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E now argues that the opposite is true and that the error came from asking the wrong question. Across more than 120 years of records from the Mississippi River Basin, the researchers, including study co-author\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reinhard.gatech.edu\/chris-reinhard.html\u0022\u003EChris Reinhard\u003C\/a\u003E, conclude that agricultural liming has removed somewhere between 300 and 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere since 1900.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFor most of the industrial era, spreading crushed limestone across farmland has been treated as a carbon problem. The rock contains carbon; it ends up in contact with air and water, and by the most conservative accounting conventions, carbon is assumed to escape as carbon dioxide. Regulators and major climate assessments have baked that assumption into their default rules for decades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-11040-2\u0022\u003Estudy published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E now argues that the opposite is true and that the error came from asking the wrong question. Across more than 120 years of records from the Mississippi River Basin, the researchers, including study co-author\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reinhard.gatech.edu\/chris-reinhard.html\u0022\u003EChris Reinhard\u003C\/a\u003E, conclude that agricultural liming has removed somewhere between 300 and 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere since 1900.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-10-02 19:25:26","changed_gmt":"2026-10-05 14:52:32","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Intelligent Living","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.intelligentliving.co\/agricultural-liming-carbon-sink\/","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"84001","name":"carbon sink"},{"id":"669","name":"agriculture"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}