ScienceDaily: Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn at the European Parliament has launched a soil atlas of the world’s northernmost regions, where more than half the carbon present in Earth’s soils is stored. She will simultaneously inaugurate an exhibition on the work of the Commission’s Joint Research Centre, which produced the Atlas. It covers regions above the latitude of 50° N, which represent 16% of global land surface. Although there has been much focus on the melting of arctic ice as one of …