Soil is not be the carbon sequestration saviour we thought It was

According to this article from Quanta Magazine... "a new generation of soil studies powered by modern microscopes and imaging technologies has revealed that whatever humus is, it is not the long-lasting substance scientists believed it to be. 'There are a lot of people who are interested in sequestration who haven’t caught up yet,' said Margaret Torn, a soil scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-soil-science-revolution-upends-plans-to-fight-climate-change-20210727/