Subject

Earth and environmental sciences

The physical, chemical and biological systems of our planet.

Climate scienceOcean sciencesGeoscience

1 article

Perspective Open access

Towards a global observing system for soil carbon

Soils hold more carbon than plants and the atmosphere combined, yet we lack the means to measure how that store is changing. It is time to build them.

Elena Patel, Anders Becker … Tomasz Mensah

Lumen 3, 129–138 (2026)