In this Rose Café, Dr Dawit Solomon who is researcher of plant science at Cornell gave a talk about the importance of soil. As a person who has not taken a Biology course since high school, I felt that I learned a lot of interesting facts about soils.

I never knew that 25% carbon in the atmosphere is contained by soil and how it affects global warming. What was also more interesting to learn about was that how evidence was found that some civilizations had developed material that enriches soil.  At the end Dr Solomon spoke about his research in developing material that keeps Carbon contained in soil and Professor Blalock brought a sample of Dr Solomon’s product which other than reducing the Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere also enriches the soil with other ingredients.