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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Known as “carbon sinks,” mangroves, peatlands and boreal forests have helped cool the Earth for thousands of years. By storing billions of tons of CO2 in their soil and vegetation, and locking ...

At the global scale, it is estimated that erosion can account for a net sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (Stallard 1998). The biogeochemical implications of soil erosion partly depend on the ...

increasing the soil fertility and acting as a carbon sink. This sequestration of the carbon helps to meet targets to reduce emission of carbon dioxide, a cause of climate change. In 2023 ...

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 ...