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carbon capture & sequestration

A landscape view of a peatland in Estonia
Posted inNews

Resilient Peatlands Keep Carbon Bogged Down

by L. Poppick 8 October 20191 April 2022

Boreal peatlands contain some of the world’s largest reservoirs of soil carbon, and new research suggests some peatlands may hold on to that carbon even as the climate changes.

A direct air capture facility in Switzerland
Posted inScience Updates

Studying the Societal Dimensions of Atmospheric Carbon Removal

by N. Mahowald, J. Zelikova and C. Kling 8 August 201921 March 2022

Workshop on Human/Societal Dimensions of a New Carbon Economy with Carbon180; Washington, D.C., 13 February 2019

Forest elephants playing in water
Posted inNews

Elephants Boost Carbon Storage in Rain Forests

by Jenessa Duncombe 16 July 201929 April 2022

Forest elephants are the “gardeners of the Congo.” How might their dwindling population affect carbon storage in the world’s second-largest tropical forest?

Puca glacier in the Peruvian Andes
Posted inNews

After a Glacier Retreats, Plants Thrive Thanks to Phosphorus

by Katherine Kornei 6 June 201812 April 2022

Grasses, small flowers, and mosses colonize glacial till in the Peruvian Andes when researchers apply a phosphorus fertilizer, an ecological surprise with implications for carbon sequestration.

Researchers examine layers of organic matter in peat bogs to better understand nutrient cycling
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Depth Matters in Peat Bog Nutrient Cycling

by David Shultz 31 May 20181 April 2022

Peatlands store around a third of Earth’s soil carbon, and a new study begins to reveal how the ecosystems’ organic matter changes with depth.

Researchers track carbon dioxide trends in the Southern Ocean to better understand one of the world’s largest carbon sinks
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Shedding Light on the Southern Ocean Carbon Sink

by S. Witman 22 February 201817 August 2022

One of the world’s largest carbon sinks is still poorly understood.

Researchers use ground-penetrating radar to spot carbon stores in the Disney Wilderness Preserve
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Better Way to Probe Peat

by S. Witman 10 January 20181 April 2022

Florida scientists use ground-penetrating radar to image underground carbon stores in the Disney Wilderness Preserve.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Preventing Climate Change by Increasing Ocean Alkalinity

by P. Renforth 9 August 20177 March 2022

A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics discussed increasing ocean alkalinity as an alternative method of carbon sequestration in response to climate change.

Marine scientists deploy a video plankton recorder in the high-latitude North Atlantic in April 2012.
Posted inScience Updates

Optical Sensors Can Shed Light on Particle Dynamics in the Ocean

by S. L. C. Giering 2 May 201727 September 2022

First TOMCAT Workshop; Southampton, UK, 12–14 September 2016

Smokestacks puffing gas
Posted inScience Updates

How Will Earth Respond to Plans for Carbon Dioxide Removal?

by A. Lenton, D. Keller and P. Pfister 22 March 201731 January 2022

First Workshop of the Carbon Dioxide Removal Model Intercomparison Project; Potsdam, Germany, 20–22 September 2016

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