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Grounded in Nature: What’s Soil Got to Do With Climate Change? Convocation Lecture April 22, 2026, 12 p.m.—Hoversten Chapel The soil system stores twice as much carbon as the atmosphere and all the world’s vegetation combined. The exchange of greenhouse gases between the soil and the atmosphere controls the composition of the earth’s climate. Over .../convo/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2026/03/DSC_2760-NEF_DxO_DeepPRIME.jpg23051537