This study presents a new, low-cost sensor system for measuring soil CO₂ gas continuously over long periods. Built using easy-to-get hardware components, the system costs USD700. It was tested for six months in desert soil, proving to be reliable, easy to maintain, and capable of capturing important changes in soil CO₂. The CO₂ flux calculations from this system closely matched those from a standard measurement device, making it a practical tool for research requiring multiple sensor systems.

Tropical forest soils are vital for methane uptake, but deforestation and agriculture can alter soil methane oxidation. An experiment in Thailand shows that fertilization significantly suppresses methane oxidation in rubber plantation soils, affecting depths up to 60 cm. Without fertilization, deeper soil layers (below 10 cm) actively oxidize methane. These findings suggest that fertilization negatively impacts the methane uptake capacity of deep-layer soils in rubber plantations.

Permafrost peatlands are large reservoirs of carbon. As frozen permafrost thaws, drier peat moisture conditions can arise, affecting microbial production of climate-warming greenhouse gases like CO₂ and N₂O. Our study suggests that future peat CO₂ and N₂O production depends on whether drier peat plateaus thaw into wetter fens or bogs and on their diverging responses of peat respiration to more moisture-limited conditions.

Mineral phosphate is a finite resource and so ways must be found to optimize the use of native soil P. We have used isotopic dilution to assess how acidification and the addition of citrate or oxalate modify the lability of soil P in four contrasting soils from the Mediterranean region. Acidification did not mobilise soil P, whereas both carboxylate anions promoted soil P lability. This suggests that soil amendments and the choice of crops that exude carboxylates could optimize P nutrition.

Here, we investigated how biochar, a potential C sequestration tool, affects early carbon storage in different soil types. We created artificial soils to isolate the impact of soil texture. We found that biochar significantly reduces plant residue’s breakdown in all soil textures, but mainly sandy soils, which naturally hold less carbon. This suggests biochar could be a valuable tool for improving soil health, especially in sandy soils.

We explored how nutrient enrichment (N and P) affects carbon gas (CO₂ and CH₄) productions from subarctic bog and fen soils. Adding N increased CO₂ from bog, P did so for fen, but combined N and P reduced CO₂ but enhanced CH₄ in both. Soil microbes may have adapted to the natural differences in bog and fen conditions and complicated the changes in carbon gas productions. These insights can guide future research on the impacts of changing nutrient status in cold region soils and carbon emissions.

Agriculture may have a significant role on the climate change mitigation. For that reason, it is necessary to have good estimation of the greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from the agricultural activities. In this work, two different chamber systems to determine GHG were compared. Our results highlighted that automated chamber systems, compared to manual chamber systems, are a powerful tool for quantifying GHG fluxes, allowing to capture the large temporal variability that characterizes them.