Cattails and Tules Perform Double Duty as Soil Rebuilders and Carbon Scrubbers

Remember this term: carbon-capture farming. While it may not yet have received much attention, this practice, which would consist of paying delta farmers to plant carbon-sequestering crops, could soon become a big business.

That's the conclusion reached by a team of researchers from the USGS and UC Davis, who just completed a 15-year study examining the potential of tules and cattails to help sequester greenhouse gases and rebuild sinking islands in the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta....