Soil isn't able to fight climate change.

Climate change will change the soil, no matter what. Rainfall will increase in some places, decrease in others. Thus, the soil will be changed/modified.

It's well known how to decrease nitrogen run-off. Use slow-release fertilizers and/or apply divided doses of the nitrogen needed by the crop over the growing season.

Woody landscape plants in most soils seldom need added nitrogen beyond that from an organic mulch.

Jean, it is what goes into the soil, not the soil itself, that aids in sequestering the carbon that aids in the fight against climate change, something that would have been apparent to you had you read the article.

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