Plants, trees, and soil absorbed almost no net CO2 last year. If this continues, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.

Carbon emissions from forest fires increased more than 60 percent globally over the past two decades, according to a new ...

Humans produced a record 41.2 billion tons of carbon pollution in 2023. Without the planet’s carbon sinks performing their essential ecosystem services at a normal rate, reaching net zero will not be ...

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage.

Sinks are Sinking Earth's natural defenses against carbon emissions could be breaking down, The Guardian reports. Our planet ...

A leading soil scientist has poured cold water on the idea that agriculture could act as a carbon sink for the rest of the Australian economy. Carbon sink is the term used to describe a site that ...

It's feared crucial natural processes which see our lands and oceans absorb carbon dioxide and help regulate the world's ...

Big Tech and Biden officials still seem to think they can make offset markets work. To say the track record is bad is an ...

Agriculture's impact on global greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for reducing emissions through sustainable practices ...

A carbon price can reduce emissions, but its implementation has been slow due to concerns that it can negatively impact ...

The release of soil carbon is hugely significant ... quite stable and boreal forests served as a globally important carbon sink. But global heating, which is particularly pronounced in the ...