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 ...

To help absorb carbon dioxide from the air and store it in the soil or in plants on their farms ... their agricultural land into a carbon sink. But why does this matter? The study results indicate ...

Soil is the biggest terrestrial carbon sink. The world’s soils store more carbon than the planet’s biomass and atmosphere combined. This includes soil organic carbon, which is essentially biodiversity ...

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

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 ...