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Carbon Offsets

As its topsoil washes away, the Corn Belt is losing yields — and carbon

By dragonarmy | December 31, 2021

Chances are, if you live in North America, you’ve eaten corn from the Corn Belt, a region in the United States Midwest that produces 75% of U.S. corn. Scientists have found that around 35% of the region has lost its most fertile A-horizon soil, more commonly known as topsoil, since European colonization in the 1800s, […]

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