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 ...

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 ...

Scientists recently found the planet’s longest continuously occupied termite colony in an arid region of South Africa. It ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A novel method for estimating the rate of photosynthesis from land plants reveals that satellite observations—the current ...

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 ...

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 ...