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Carbon sinks
Carbon reservoirs and conditions that take-in and store more carbon (i.e., carbon sequestration) than they release. Carbon sinks can serve to partially offset greenhouse gas emissions. Forests and oceans are large carbon sinks. See carbon sequestration. (source: EPA) BBC News,Of all the CO2 emitted into the atmosphere, only half of it stays there; the rest goes into carbon sinks. There are two major natural carbon sinks: the Oceans absorbing less harmful gases - Oct 20, 2007 ITN,Oceans naturally act as 'carbon sinks' by absorbing greenhouse gases, but UK-based scientists have found that climate change may be drastically affecting Spiritually Speaking: Beleaf it! We need those things we’re raking! - Oct 21, 2007 Eden Prairie News,But nowadays we’re learning more about this carbon cycle, and plants removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans like carbon sinks, Temperature rises in Bournemouth - Sep 26, 2007 Guardian Unlimited,The IPCC models assume that emitted CO2 will be removed from the atmosphere by so-called "carbon sinks", giving the CO2 a lifetime of about 150 years; Govt wary of carbon sink idea - Oct 12, 2007 Bangkok Post,Carbon sinks, or reforestation and afforestation projects, are part of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism, designed to help industrialised Earth Talk - Oct 17, 2007 Richmond.com,...reefs do store CO2 as part of photosynthesis, they tend to release most of it back into the ocean (so they are not what are known as "carbon sinks"). Global warming in Sindh Assembly: Plant shady trees on east and ... - Oct 5, 2007 Daily Times,KARACHI: Urban vegetation can help reduce the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by as much as four percent by increasing shade and evaporation and Breath of life - Sep 30, 2007 Manawatu Standard,Forests are considered as carbon "sinks" in that they absorb carbon as they grow. This carbon remains "locked in" even when the forest is milled and the Could seeing ocean with GMO fight global warming? - Sep 23, 2007 Mongabay.comThe geological accident 55 million years ago triggered a severe runaway global warming episode by slowly turning carbon sinks into carbon emitters. BP Executive pied as Europe's largest BioFuels Event disrupted - Oct 17, 2007 Indymedia UK,1/3 of all greenhouse gas emissions come from the destruction of living carbon sinks. The Amazon rainforest is the largest driver of the climate on the Surviving The Century - Oct 12, 2007 CounterCurrents.org,International treaties, including Kyoto, have failed to recognize the importance of tropical forests both as carbon sinks and as stabilizers of our weather Carbon-eating trees are one key to easing warming - Sep 30, 2007 Rutland Herald,..."Forests are natural carbon sinks," says Bob Perschel, northeast regional director for the Forest Guild. "They take carbon out of the air and put it into a Climate Change: Arctic Sea Ice Heading for Rapid Disintegration - Oct 11, 2007 Bay Area Indymedia,Many species are on the precipice, climate-change-induced drought or changing monsoon patterns are sweeping every continent, the carbon sinks are losing Grading on a curve - Oct 11, 2007 Grist Magazine,I would like to see us use tax credits and incentivize people to create carbon sinks in this country or around the world ... I want us to work together Christmas tree goes green - Oct 5, 2007 Bennington Banner,Forests are carbon "sinks" that drawing large quantities of CO2 out of the atmosphere and storing it for long periods, said Ponozzo. Peatland to palm oil no good for RI - Oct 9, 2007 Jakarta Post,She said that up to 90 percent of the logging in Indonesia was illegal, threatening Indonesia's forests, which function as carbon sinks that are needed to South America chokes as Amazon burns - Oct 4, 2007 Independent,...is the largest in the world, play a vital role in regulating the world's climate, both absorbing harmful emissions and acting as vast carbon sinks. Pulp fiction a balm for voters - Oct 4, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,Turnbull convened a major international conference to address the need to retain native forests around the world as carbon sinks, yet when it is native Brownback on the Record - Oct 5, 2007 Grist Magazine,I would like to see us use tax credits and incentivize people to create carbon sinks in this country or around the world, so that instead of burning trees Get your industrial agrodiesel here - Oct 18, 2007 Grist Magazine,...that at least you are trying and that in the future even more of it might be locally grown (by plowing up Conservation Reserve carbon sinks, of course). Forests providing ecological value - Sep 27, 2007 Powell River Peak,...the whole value of the forests into account, their worth as carbon sinks (their ability to trap greenhouse gasses) and the other benefits they provide. 15 Facts About Paper Industry and the Environment - Oct 2, 2007 Daily Green...(In other words, they are awfully important “carbon sinks� that hold onto pollution that would otherwise lead to global warming.) Half the world’s forests Brown hints at tougher emissions targets - Sep 25, 2007 IT Week,...cause natural carbon sinks such as permafrost and the rainforests to begin releasing greenhouse gasses, thus further accelerating climate change. Forest protestors begin Picton blockade - Oct 9, 2007 ABC Online,The centre says the process degrades water catchments, carbon sinks and threatened species habitat. A spokesman for the group, Will Mooney, says there are Forest activists block logging coupe - Oct 9, 2007 The Age,..."These operations degrade water catchments, carbon sinks and threatened species habitat." He said the "degradation" was being allowed to continue while the Seeds from the past for the future - Oct 9, 2007 Kane County Chronicle,Restoring prairies and natural areas affect the climate because prairies are “carbon sinks,� said John Wilker, natural areas program manager with the Labor plan to create jobs - Oct 5, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,Another $10 million will be spent helping communities set up carbon sinks on their land, which business and industry could invest in to offset their Tete-a-tete with Hemendra Kothari - Sep 29, 2007 Economic Times,Forests are the best carbon sinks you can find. We must find a way...� he trails off and tells his driver, “Drop me off here. The Day After Tomorrow... - Oct 8, 2007 Kolkata Newsline,From planting trees, avoiding unnecessary use of wood, discouraging the filling up of wetlands that act as carbon sinks, saving water, and switching over to Indonesia urges incentives for forest conservation - Sep 25, 2007 Reuters UK,..."Countries that seek to enhance their carbon sinks -- through forestation, afforestation, avoided deforestation -- should be given incentive and rewarded EXTRA: Civil society, small nations want action on climate - Sep 24, 2007 Earthtimes.orgPerdomo said Guatemala can also contribute to the solution of climate change because of its rain forests that can be used as carbon sinks and its ecosystems Nobel peace prize; time for IPCC and Gore to address the ... - Oct 12, 2007 PEJ News,...place to compel governments to end years of procrastination and fulfill their commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and conserve carbon sinks. Alternative Views on Climate Change - Sep 28, 2007 Council on Foreign Relations,International efforts on climate change have focused on the mitigation of greenhouse-gas emissions and the use of carbon sinks to help remove greenhouse Don't hurt the dirt - Sep 27, 2007 Daily Camera,Further, healthy soil and the plant matter it holds steady act as important "carbon sinks" that lock up vast amounts of carbon that would otherwise Earth Talk - Sep 26, 2007 Richmond.com,Further, healthy soil and the plant matter it holds steady act as important "carbon sinks" that lock vast amounts of carbon up that would otherwise Climate Change Solutions Must Also Tackle Poverty - Sep 25, 2007 Scoop.co.nz,..."We also believe that countries that seek to enhance their carbon sinks - through forestation, afforestation, avoided deforestation - should be given Loggers vow to clip Angel's wings - Oct 3, 2007 NEWS.com.au,..."What I do think is endangering people's lives is the old-growth and high-conservation logging, because logging those old forest carbon sinks equals climate Protesting the disposable society - Sep 26, 2007 Rabble.ca,Our only chance for redemption is to be found in the carbon sinks of large woodland areas like the Boreal Forest in Northern Canada. 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