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Cosmos magazine: Soil carbon and the climate crisis

By Ellen Phiddian
Updated May 20 2022 - 11:31am, first published May 19 2022 - 6:00pm

Chemists are constantly hunting for ways to make carbon dioxide (CO2) into more useful, carbon-containing substances. But one of the central problems with carbon dioxide is that it's such a stable molecule: it's hard to get it to react with anything.

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