We might imagine soil as endless and indestructible: it is neither. Only about 7.5 percent of the earth’s surface provides the soil we rely on for agriculture, and it is remarkably fragile.

resulting in a soil storage rate of about 3 GT C/yr. Oceanic carbon flux rates suggest oceans store about 2 GT carbon/yr despite occupying a vastly larger proportion of the earth's surface.

Hearing this, Lear disinherits Cordelia and the King of France marries her. Lear's remaining daughters, Goneril and Regan also begin to rebel, and eventually Lear is cast out of his home and ...