04/05/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 4 May, Research Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn presented the European Parliament with the Soil Atlas for the world's northernmost regions, where more than half the carbon present in the Earth's soils is stored. According to the Commission, the Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region is the first compilation providing all the available information on this carbon pool as well as other important data on northern soils. The Atlas will therefore...