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Effect of Compost and Tillage on Soil Carbon Sequestration and Stability in Paddy Soil | Korea Science

Ecosystem Services under Benefit and Cost Uncertainty: An Application to Soil Carbon Sequestration

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Enhancing phytolith carbon sequestration in rice ecosystems through ba by Fengshan Guo, Zhaoliang Song et al.

Carbon sequestration on Mars | Geology | GeoScienceWorld

BCC to Host Speaker on Soil Carbon Sequestration | SEMAP

Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils: A dynamic assessment - AgEcon Search

Agricultural Soil Carbon Sequestration Offset Programs: Strengths, Difficulties, and Suggestions for Their Potential Use in AB...

Assessing carbon stocks and modelling win-win scenarios of carbon sequestration though land-use changes

Influences of drip and flood irrigation on soil carbon dioxide emission and soil carbon sequestration of maize cropland in the...

Google Carbon Sequestration | Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership

Carbon Sequestration - Energy Research Institute | Montana State University

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Estimating Leakage from Forest Carbon Sequestration Programs | RTI

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The greenhouse gas impacts of converting food production in England and Wales to organic methods | Nature Communications

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Hawaii Carbon Storage and Greenhouse Gas Flux Assessment

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The effect of grazing exclusion on vegetation characteristics and plant community structure in arid lowland pastures

Bio-Energy Carbon Capture & Storage: a chat with Stockholm Exergi | KTH

Evaluation of Soil Organic Carbon of Upland Soil According to Fertilization and Agricultural Management Using DNDC Model

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Carbon dioxide exchange in the Arctic : The effect of a changing climate on soil carbon turnover in tundra heaths

COAL: Husband-and-wife team stirs up carbon sequestration experts -- Monday, May 3, 2010 -- www.eenews.net

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Soil carbon33

• It would be nice if soil carbon sequestration could help in the problem of climate change. (ibiblio.org)
• Maybe soil carbon sequestration can help with a small slice, but I haven't seen enough to convince me that it will be a major factor in controlling CO2. (ibiblio.org)
• His research for the past decade focused on the integration of spatial biophysical parameters derived from satellite imagery with process models for regional assessment of crop condition, yields and soil carbon sequestration. (google.com)
• However, this process may be slow, requiring a century or longer to re-attain pre-agricultural soil carbon levels. (nature.com)
• The higher soil carbon storage rates of the second period (years 13-22) are associated with the greater aboveground production and root biomass of this period, and with the presence of multiple species, especially C4 grasses and legumes. (nature.com)
• Conant RT, Paustian K, Elliott ET (2001) Grassland management and conversion into grassland: effects on soil carbon. (springer.com)
• The subject of the effects of forest management activities on soil carbon is a difficult one to address, but ongoing discussions of carbon sequestration as an emissions offset and the emergence of carbon-credit-trading systems necessitate that we broaden and deepen our understanding of the response of forest-soil carbon pools to forest management. (usda.gov)
• There have been several reviews of the literature, but hard-and-fast conclusions are still difficult to draw, since many of the studies reviewed were not designed specifically to address management effects on soil carbon, were conducted on a short timescale, and differ in the methodology employed. (usda.gov)
• Findings at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are providing information about the soil carbon dynamics that play a crucial role in lifecycle assessments of bioenergy production. (scienceblog.com)
• In one study, an ARS team conducted a 9-year investigation examining the impact fertilizer and harvest treatments had on soil carbon sequestration in biomass crops. (scienceblog.com)
• The team applied nitrogen fertilizer at three different rates to fields of perennial switchgrass and annual no-till maize to see how management practices affected soil carbon sequestration. (scienceblog.com)
• The scientists found that in the maize fields, soil carbon levels increased over time at all depths, with all nitrogen treatments, and with all postharvest stover management. (scienceblog.com)
• They also determined that more than 50 percent of the soil carbon was found at depths between 1 foot and 5 feet below the soil surface. (scienceblog.com)
• The average annual increase of soil carbon throughout the first 5 feet of subsoil also exceeded 0.9 tons per acre each year, which was equivalent to 3.25 tons of carbon dioxide per acre per year. (scienceblog.com)
• The team concluded that calculating soil carbon sequestration rates for bioenergy crops needs to factor in the effects of crop selection, soil differences, environmental conditions, and management practices. (scienceblog.com)
• Additionally, the deep-rooted nature of these plants requires soil sampling to a depth of 5 feet to account for the increases in soil carbon. (scienceblog.com)
• However, unlike other cover crops, CoverCress™ also provides farmers economic benefits associated with earning a return by harvesting and selling CoverCress™ grain as well as the potential to participate in the new soil carbon markets that are developing. (danforthcenter.org)
• Plants eventually die, releasing their stored carbon to the atmosphere quickly or to the soil where it decomposes slowly and increases soil carbon levels. (novapublishers.com)
• Little information exists on the processes and diverse rates of soil carbon change. (novapublishers.com)
• There is also information on the 'value' of soil carbon, options for farmers and about carbon trading. (thepoultrysite.com)
• Organic carbon levels in soils on land disturbed by mining and industry are depleted and as such land affected by these activities offers significant opportunities for soil carbon sequestration via rehabilitation and re-vegetation. (aber.ac.uk)
• Soil carbon simulation models are process-oriented multicompartment models. (fao.org)
• Benefit and cost uncertainty in provisioning of ecosystem services are investigated in the context of soil carbon sequestration. (repec.org)
• Uncertainty has been a widely stated reason for not including soil carbon sequestration in the portfolio of greenhouse gases reduction measures. (repec.org)
• The results provide a magnitude of uncertainty discount for soil carbon offsets and the budget margin of safety, and may assist in formulating carbon sequestration policy. (repec.org)
• Ecosystem Services under Benefit and Cost Uncertainty: An Application to Soil Carbon Sequestration ," Land Economics , University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 86(4), pages 668-686. (repec.org)
• Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect comprises technical papers from a Soil Science Society symposium in 1998. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
• The papers offer information on soil carbon sequestration from croplands, range lands, forest lands, and set-aside or CRP lands in the US and Canada, highlighting the importance of pedospheric processes in soil carbon sequestration. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
• The main hurtle now is to change the current perspective held by the IPCC that the soil carbon cycle is a wash, to one in which soil can be used as a massive and ubiquitous Carbon sink via Charcoal. (polizeros.com)
• Carbon must have a fair price, that fair price and the changes in the view of how the soil carbon cycle now can be used as a massive sink verses it now being viewed as a wash, will be of particular value to farmers and a global cool breath of fresh air for us all. (polizeros.com)
• The prehistoric and historic records gives a logical thrust for soil carbon sequestration. (polizeros.com)
• Methodology: Contrasting rotations of soybean and canola will be compared in terms of soil carbon sequestration. (trb.org)
• Because soybean forms a symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizal fungi that live at the interface of between the root and the soil, it is hypothesized that it will sequester significantly more soil carbon than canola, which is not mycorrhizal. (trb.org)

Soils29

• The removal and storage of carbon from the atmosphere in carbon sinks (such as oceans, forests or soils) through physical or biological processes, such as photosynthesis. (greenfacts.org)
• The volume discusses the possibilities for limiting that increase by the long-term storage of carbon in soils, vegetation, wetlands and oceans. (springer.com)
• Soils store climatically significant amounts of carbon (C) as soil organic matter, globally about 2.3 times greater than the C in atmospheric CO 2 and 3.5 times greater than the C in all living terrestrial plants 1 . (nature.com)
• Sequestered carbon is then accumulated in the form of biomass, deadwood, litter and in forest soils. (unece.org)
• An important feature that distinguishes the region's carbon stock is a relatively high ratio of carbon stored in soils, nearly half of the total. (unece.org)
• Batjes NH (1996) Total carbon and nitrogen in the soils of the world. (springer.com)
• Brown S, Lugo AE (1990) Effects of forest clearing and succession on the carbon and nitrogen content of soils in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands. (springer.com)
• Detwiler RP (1986) Land use change and the global carbon cycle: the role of tropical soils. (springer.com)
• Eighty percent of the Earth's terrestrial Carbon is stored in soils and other than the ocean it is the largest pool of carbon on earth. (organic-center.org)
• Humans manage the majority of the Earth's soils and research shows that our management practices can deplete the soil's carbon stores - releasing it back into the atmosphere - contributing to global climate change. (organic-center.org)
• They also found that the rate of carbon loss from agricultural soils has increased dramatically over the last 200 years as more land is converted to crop and rangeland. (organic-center.org)
• This study is important because it is one of the only to quantify the molecules important for long-term carbon storage in soils. (organic-center.org)
• We've known from previous studies that organic farming practices often result in soils that are higher in total soil organic carbon. (organic-center.org)
• These results are important because the stable molecules that make up total soil organic carbon are strongly associated with healthy soils and may have a role to play in climate change mitigation. (organic-center.org)
• It is vital to our climate and food security that we examine agricultural systems that can preserve carbon in our soils over the long term to help build our carbon reserves back up, and this study shows that organic can be a critical part of that solution. (organic-center.org)
• The potential of U.S. forest soils to sequester carbon and mitigate the greenhouse effect. (usda.gov)
• MSU's research involves effectively managing agricultural and forested lands to increase the amount of carbon that can be stored in the soil, as well as building sensors to quickly and accurately detect the amount of carbon stored in soils. (montana.edu)
• Responses to this concern have focused on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, and on measuring carbon absorbed by and stored in forests and soils. (wur.nl)
• Widespread concern about global climate change has led to interest in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and, under certain circumstances, in counting additional carbon absorbed in soils and vegetation as part of the emissions reductions. (novapublishers.com)
• Carbon stock in soils under present land use can be estimated through carbon dynamics simulation models. (fao.org)
• Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils: Discounting for Uncertainty ," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie , Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 53(4), pages 375-384, December. (repec.org)
• Specific topics include inventory of carbon emissions and sequestration of US cropland soils, carbon dynamics and sequestration of a mixed-grass prairie as influenced by grazing, possibilities of change in the greenhouse gas balance of agro ecosystems in Canada, and reconstruction of soil inorganic and organic carbon sequestration across broad geoclimatic regions. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
• The Amazonian terra preta soils discovered have up to one order of magnitude higher carbon content than other neighboring soils. (amnh.org)
• the current news and links on Terra Preta (TP)soils and closed-loop pyrolysis of Biomass, this integrated virtuous cycle could sequester 100s of Billions of tons of carbon to the soils. (polizeros.com)
• This technology represents the most comprehensive, low cost, and productive approach to long term stewardship and sustainability.Terra Preta Soils a process for Carbon Negative Bio fuels, massive Carbon sequestration, 1/3 Lower CH4 & N2O soil emissions, and 3X Fertility Too. (polizeros.com)
• Boreal forest soils function as a terrestrial net sink in the global carbon cycle. (diva-portal.org)
• We examine the spatial and dynamic implications of policies aimed at encouraging carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. (umn.edu)
• Six of each winter and summer cover crops were subsequently grown in two soils, Krome gravelly loam soil (KGL), and Quincy fine sandy soil (QFS), in phytotrons at 3 temperatures (10/20, 15/25, 25/30oC for winter/summer cover crops) to investigate their contributions for carbon (C) sequestration. (scirp.org)
• U. M. Sainju, B. P. Singh, F. W. Wayne and S. Wang, "Carbon Supply and Storage in Tilled and Nontilled Soils as Influenced by Cover Crops and Nitrogen Fertilization," Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2006, pp. 1507-1517. (scirp.org)

Biomass12

• Peat bogs act as a sink for carbon due to the accumulation of partially decayed biomass that would otherwise continue to decay completely. (wikipedia.org)
• Forests sequester carbon by capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transforming it into biomass through photosynthesis. (unece.org)
• It is estimated that the forest biomass in the EU27 countries contains 9.8 billion tons of carbon (tC). (unece.org)
• In relative numbers, in 2005, North America had an estimated 118 tons of carbon stock per hectare (includes carbon in living biomass, dead wood, litter and soil). (unece.org)
• Following a successful event last week DECC has started to review the biomass carbon calculator and incorporate the changes suggested by delegates. (innovateuk.org)
• With sufficient soil nutrition, forests increase their ability to tie up, or sequester carbon in woody biomass under increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations," says Kurt Johnsen, SRS researcher involved in the project. (eurekalert.org)
• Forest trees capture atmospheric carbon through photosynthesis and store it in their biomass, including a significant portion in roots and soil. (purdue.edu)
• Due to fast growth rate and adaptability to a range of environments, short rotation plantations, in addition to carbon storage, rapidly produce biomass for energy and contribute to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. (wur.nl)
• When there is less living biomass, there is also less that can die and sink to the bottom-which results in a decrease in carbon sequestration. (caltech.edu)
• The aliphatic carbon in the plant is transformed into stable, aromatic carbon during pyrolysis, and decomposes at a much slower rate than biomass. (amnh.org)
• Q. Wang, Y. Li and A. Alva, "Growing Cover Crops to Improve Biomass Accumulation and Carbon Sequestration: A Phytotron Study," Journal of Environmental Protection , Vol. 1 No. 2, 2010, pp. 73-84. (scirp.org)
• The quantity of sequestrated carbon was determined based on aboveground biomass. (scielo.br)

Atmosphere57

• This article is about removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or from point sources. (wikipedia.org)
• For details on removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere only, see Carbon dioxide removal . (wikipedia.org)
• Carbon sequestration is the long-term removal, capture or sequestration of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to slow or reverse atmospheric CO2 pollution and to mitigate or reverse global warming . (wikipedia.org)
• The process of removing carbon from the atmosphere and depositing it in a reservoir. (wikipedia.org)
• Natural biogeochemical cycling of carbon between the atmosphere and reservoirs, such as by chemical weathering of rocks. (wikipedia.org)
• Carbon dioxide is naturally captured from the atmosphere through biological, chemical or physical processes. (wikipedia.org)
• It is one method of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with the goal of reducing global climate change. (usgs.gov)
• How does carbon get into the atmosphere? (usgs.gov)
• Geologic carbon dioxide (CO2) storage is one of many methods for stabilizing the increasing concentration of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere. (usgs.gov)
• Carbon sequestration is the process involved in carbon capture and the long-term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) and may refer specifically to: "The process of removing carbon from the atmosphere and depositing it in a reservoir. (wikipedia.org)
• The process of increasing the carbon content of a reservoir other than the atmosphere. (greenfacts.org)
• But it is not clear how effective different types of sequestration are in the long run, owing to leakage of stored CO2 back out to the atmosphere. (eurekalert.org)
• Anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has been recognized as the primary agent in global climate change. (springer.com)
• A report in the journal Nature has revealed that enhanced rock weathering (ERW) could help slow climate change by sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (inhabitat.com)
• The contribution of forests to carbon cycles has to be evaluated taking also into account the use of harvested wood, e.g. wood products storing carbon for a certain period of time, or energy generation releasing carbon in the atmosphere. (unece.org)
• [8] For this process to succeed the carbon must not return to the atmosphere from mass burning or rotting when the trees die. (wikipedia.org)
• As critical as it is to reduce future carbon emissions, it is equally critical, perhaps even more critical, to get much of the CO 2 that as already been released-and which is responsible for the current warming-out of the atmosphere and back into the ground where it belongs. (peterrussell.com)
• Lately, I've been studying natural ocean processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, searching for ways to restore or accelerate them so that we can safely slow down the rate of global warming. (edf.org)
• Coal-fired power plants are responsible for a third of the carbon dioxide that's pumped into the atmosphere in the U.S.-that's two gigatons. (mnn.com)
• As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen past 400 parts per million--a symbolic benchmark for climate scientists confirming that the effects of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere will be felt for generations to come--the surface oceans have absorbed more and more of that carbon dioxide. (innovations-report.com)
• However, there is a second, slower, buffering process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (innovations-report.com)
• Once bacteria and fungi have broken it down the carbon is released back into the atmosphere as CO2, then another plant will use that CO2 for photosynthesis, the plant grows, the plant dies or drops a fruit, decomposes and repeats - labile carbon is constantly being cycled in and out of plants and therefore doesn't really contribute to atmospheric carbon reduction in the long run. (organic-center.org)
• The process by which carbon dioxide (CO 2) in the atmosphere prevents the escape of thermal energy into outer space is known as the green house effect. (environmental-expert.com)
• The findings create a more complex view of the carbon cycle in forests, where it was already known that logging or other stand-replacement events - whether natural or not - create periods of 5-20 years when there is a net release of carbon dioxide from forests to the atmosphere, instead of sequestration as they do later on. (innovations-report.com)
• Until this report, researchers had never quantified the effect of continuous low levels of nitrogen deposition - about 5-10 percent of the amount used by a farmer each year - to spur net carbon uptake by forests and actually offset a significant amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. (innovations-report.com)
• Early forest growth puts a severe nitrogen stress on the ecosystem initially, and then the forest continues to grow and remove carbon from the atmosphere for the rest of the management or life cycle, accumulating wood at a high rate on the small additional nitrogen inputs. (innovations-report.com)
• This growth and sequestration is achieved without applications of fertilizer that would likely result in nitrous oxide emissions, another greenhouse gas, that would offset the benefits to the atmosphere of carbon removal. (innovations-report.com)
• Ultimately, mature forests, at least in northern latitudes, absorb and sequester substantial amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. (innovations-report.com)
• Forest protection and management options have been viewed as one mechanism to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reduce concerns about the greenhouse effect and global warming. (innovations-report.com)
• AUSTIN, Texas , Sept. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hypergiant Industries, the AI products and solutions company, announces the launch of the Eos Bioreactor, a green energy solution that captures and sequesters carbon from the atmosphere using algae. (prnewswire.com)
• Humanity is in a position where it is in need of big, actionable ideas to curb climate change, and this device is a solution that can be used to reduce planet-warming emissions, removing carbon from the atmosphere. (prnewswire.com)
• Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a major contributor to global warming, and one of the methods proposed to reduce mankinds CO2 emissions is carbon sequestration - storing CO2 in deep within the earth and through farming and forestry practices. (montana.edu)
• But choking off the stream of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere does not have a simple solution. (engineeringchallenges.org)
• A grand challenge for the 21st century's engineers will be developing systems for capturing the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels and sequestering it safely away from the atmosphere. (engineeringchallenges.org)
• Carbon sequestration is capturing the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels and storing it safely away from the atmosphere. (engineeringchallenges.org)
• The ocean is home to huge populations of simple, single-celled organisms called phytoplankton which are known to play an important role in sequestering carbon dioxide which dissolves into the sea from the atmosphere, via photosynthesis. (earthtimes.org)
• HPI is an innovative, scalable and bold approach to address climate change by turbocharging plants' ability to capture and store larger amounts of carbon from the atmosphere in their roots and keeping it buried in the ground for long periods of time. (danforthcenter.org)
• Salk researchers aim to develop these Salk Ideal Plants™ to mitigate the disastrous effects of climate change by drawing down significant amounts of the excess carbon in our atmosphere while also providing more food, fuel and fiber for a growing population. (danforthcenter.org)
• This promises to help agriculture pull more carbon from the atmosphere and store it for longer in the soil. (danforthcenter.org)
• Trapping carbon in forests is an effective way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, but Purdue University economists show that employing the strategy in a large-scale manner would significantly increase food prices. (purdue.edu)
• Carbon dioxide sequestration is a technology that is being explored to curb the anthropogenic emission of CO 2 into the atmosphere. (wiley.com)
• The importance of forest conservation and forest regrowth in climate mitigation and carbon sequestration - capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere - has long been recognized by climate scientists. (phys.org)
• Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contributes to harmful greenhouse gases. (gatrees.org)
• Carbon sequestration is the process of taking carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it somewhere else. (gatrees.org)
• As trees grow, they take carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it into their trunks, limbs and branches. (gatrees.org)
• Through the process of photosynthesis, trees absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store carbon in the stem, roots, branches, and leaves. (gatrees.org)
• An option for mitigating the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere is the enhanced sequestration of carbon by the biosphere through massive reforestation or sustainable afforestation programs. (wur.nl)
• There is 60 times more carbon in the ocean than in the atmosphere-partly because the ocean is so big. (caltech.edu)
• As such, the ocean is the greatest regulator of carbon in the atmosphere, acting as both a sink and a source for atmospheric CO 2 . (caltech.edu)
• As the sea creatures who consume those sugars-and the carbon they contain-die, they sink to the deep ocean, where the carbon is locked away from the atmosphere for a long time. (caltech.edu)
• A healthy population of phytoplankton helps lock away carbon from the atmosphere. (caltech.edu)
• As air carbon dioxide levels have ascended past 400 sections for each million - a typical benchmark for atmosphere researchers affirming that the impacts of the ozone harming substance in the climate will be felt for eras to come - the surface seas have assimilated increasingly of that carbon dioxide. (carbonrally.com)
• Our increasing dependence on burning fossil fuels and deforestation have resulted in massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. (amnh.org)
• There are 24 billion tons of carbon controlled by man in his agriculture and waste stream, all that farm & cellulose waste which is now dumped to rot or digested or combusted and ultimately returned to the atmosphere as GHG should be returned to the Soil. (polizeros.com)
• Exported seagrass carbon would be sequestered whether it is deposited, for significant time scales, in sediments outside seagrass meadows or it enters the deep sea, below 1000 m depth, where the carbon is prevented from exchanging with the atmosphere for significant time scales. (frontiersin.org)
• It either grows to maturity, eventually dies, and releases its carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere. (sindark.com)
• Or, it is cut down and used in an application that results in it releasing its carbon back to the atmosphere in much less than 100 years. (sindark.com)

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• Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide. (usgs.gov)
• Atmospheric carbon dioxide comes from two primary sources-natural and human activities. (usgs.gov)
• Biosequestration is the capture and storage of the atmospheric greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by continual or enhanced biological processes. (wikipedia.org)
• This process involves spreading rock dust on farmland to help absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. (inhabitat.com)
• Carbon sequestration is the process involved in carbon capture and the long-term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide [1] or other forms of carbon to mitigate or defer global warming . (wikipedia.org)
• Agroforestry systems may play an important role in mitigating climate change, having the ability to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in plant parts and soil. (springer.com)
• On December 11, USDA Forest Service (FS) scientists from the FS Southern Research Station (SRS) unit in Research Triangle Park, NC, along with colleagues from Duke University, published two papers in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) that provide a more precise understanding of how forests respond to increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), the major greenhouse gas driving climate change. (eurekalert.org)
• without adequate soil nutrition, trees respond to elevated CO2 by transferring carbon below ground, then recycling it back to the atmospheric through respiration. (eurekalert.org)
• That was during the high atmospheric CO 2 Paleozoic era, with atmospheric concentrations significantly lowered at the end by photosynthetic coal sequestration. (wattsupwiththat.com)
• The findings will ultimately allow a better understanding of how [phytoplankton] respond to changes in ocean chemistry due to increased dissolution of atmospheric carbon dioxide in the oceans' surface waters. (earthtimes.org)
• This could be done by reducing emissions or capturing and storing atmospheric carbon. (purdue.edu)
• Meeting half the Paris Agreement's goal for atmospheric carbon reduction would send food prices soaring, especially in developing economies. (purdue.edu)
• Today, our atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is 390.31 parts per million, according to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. (amnh.org)
• They sequester a vast amount of carbon in the soil and result in a net reduction of atmospheric CO 2 levels. (amnh.org)
• It is my understanding that atmospheric CO2 stands at 379 PPM, to stabilize the climate we need to reduce it to 350 PPM by the removal of 230 Billion tons of carbon. (polizeros.com)
• Their mission is to conduct and transfer the results of research to identify the best practices for storing carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide in natural soil and plant systems to reduce greenhouse gases and enhance soil resources. (colorado.edu)

Ecosystems16

• The USGS is congressionally mandated (2007 Energy Independence and Security Act) to conduct a comprehensive national assessment of storage and flux (flow) of carbon and the fluxes of other greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide) in ecosystems. (usgs.gov)
• Release of carbon from forest ecosystems results from natural processes (respiration and oxidation) as well as deliberate or unintended results of human activities (i.e. harvesting, fires, deforestation). (unece.org)
• Forest ecosystems in the European Union play multiple significant roles, including carbon sequestration. (unece.org)
• In the UNECE region as a whole, the carbon stock in forest ecosystems is increasing. (unece.org)
• According to FAO's Forest Resources Assesment, the total carbon content in forest ecosystems for the year 2005 was 638 Gt C (1 Gt C equals to 1 billion metric tons of carbon). (unece.org)
• This special feature explores the impacts of climate change and human activities on the structure and functioning of ecosystems, with emphasis on quantifying the magnitude and distribution of carbon (C) pools and C sequestration in China's terrestrial ecosystems. (pnas.org)
• Recognition of the role of vegetated coastal ecosystems as sites of intense carbon (C) sequestration and storage [ 1 , 2 ] led to the development of Blue Carbon (BC) strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change through the conservation and restoration of these ecosystems [ 3 - 5 ]. (royalsocietypublishing.org)
• Assessments of C sequestration and stocks in support of BC strategies have, thus far, been restricted to angiosperm-dominated ecosystems (saltmarshes, seagrasses and mangroves), which accrete sediments where C is stored [ 4 ]. (royalsocietypublishing.org)
• This assessment was conducted to fulfill the requirements of section 712 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and to improve understanding of factors influencing carbon balance in ecosystems of Hawai'i. (usgs.gov)
• Ecosystem carbon storage, carbon fluxes, and carbon balance were examined for major terrestrial ecosystems on the seven main. (usgs.gov)
• Would carbon sequestration efforts into the ocean disturb aquatic ecosystems? (yahoo.com)
• All carbon storage is through, as I said previously, old oil and gas fields and maybe saline aquifers so the equipment will not disturb ecosystems further. (yahoo.com)
• They make significant contributions to harvesting solar energy, sequestering carbon, bio-assimilating metals and the production of hydrogen in marine and freshwater ecosystems. (psychcentral.com)
• Because Cyanobacteria make significant contributions to harvesting solar energy, planetary carbon sequestration, metal acquisition, and hydrogen production in marine and freshwater ecosystems, the genetics and biochemistry of these organisms are particularly suitable for such an approach. (psychcentral.com)
• The fate of this carbon is diverse, as some is used by fauna or remineralized in adjacent ecosystems, while a part is buried or exported to the deep sea. (frontiersin.org)
• In contrast to reduce GHG by industrial sectors, afforestation on fallow farm land has obviously become an important alternative method to expand the potential pool of carbon stock in terrestrial ecosystems. (scielo.br)

Management and Sequestration Center1

• Rattan Lal is a professor of Soil Physics and director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center at The Ohio State University. (google.com)

Geologic10

• Which area is the best for geologic carbon sequestration? (usgs.gov)
• What's the difference between geologic and biologic carbon sequestration? (usgs.gov)
• Geologic carbon sequestration is the process of storing carbon dioxide (CO2) in underground geologic formations. (usgs.gov)
• How much carbon dioxide can the United States store via geologic sequestration? (usgs.gov)
• In 2013, the USGS released the first-ever comprehensive, nation-wide assessment of geologic carbon sequestration , which estimates a mean storage potential of 3,000 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide. (usgs.gov)
• Scientists at MSU are on the forefront of both geologic and terrestrial carbon sequestration research. (montana.edu)
• Geologic sequestration involves injecting liquefied or "supercritical" CO2 deep underground where it is stored in porous rock formations. (montana.edu)
• Meanwhile, MSU engineers are also working above ground, creating instruments to watch for leaks from geologic sequestration sites. (montana.edu)
• Geologic sequestration involves underground storage of industrially emitted CO 2 into the geosphere for long-term and secure storage . (rsc.org)
• The Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act passed the Senate and last week received Gov. Haley Barbour's signature. (msbusiness.com)

Forests38

• Humans have tried to increase carbon sequestration by growing new forests. (greenfacts.org)
• Depending on their characteristics and local circumstances, forests can play different roles in the carbon cycle, from net emitters to net sinks of carbon. (unece.org)
• In cases where the net balance of carbon emissions by forests is negative, i.e. carbon sequestration prevails, forests contribute to mitigating carbon emissions by acting as both a carbon reservoir and a tool to sequester additional carbon. (unece.org)
• In cases when the net balance of carbon emissions is positive, forests contribute to enhancing greenhouse effect and climate change. (unece.org)
• Forests and their role in the carbon cycle are affected by changing climatic conditions. (unece.org)
• Depending on circumstances, climate change will either reduce or increase carbon sequestration into forests, which causes uncertainty about the extent to which the world's forests will be able to contribute to climate change mitigation in the long term. (unece.org)
• This means that the amount of carbon emitted every year by the EU27 equals to nearly one-seventh of the carbon stored in the EU27 forests. (unece.org)
• As a result, the value placed on forests in the EU can be seen as a viable way of mitigating GHG emissions through carbon sinks and sequestration. (unece.org)
• Estimates by FAO show that forests in the UNECE region represent approximately 40 percent of all carbon contained in forests. (unece.org)
• The trends show an increase of carbon stock in many countries of the UNECE region, and sustainably managed forests could continue to store even more carbon, thus contributing to climate change mitigation. (unece.org)
• With lower soil nutrition, forests still sequester carbon, but cannot take full advantage increasing CO2 levels. (eurekalert.org)
• In the articles, the scientists identify critical areas needing further study, but the overall consistency they found across these diverse forests bodes well for developing accurate models to predict the ability of the world's forests to sequester carbon. (eurekalert.org)
• Forests play a critical part in sequestering carbon, and may play a role in mitigating the elevated levels of carbon dioxide associated with climate change," says Johnsen. (eurekalert.org)
• To predict how much forests can sequester, we need accurate ways to predict what happens to carbon within forest systems and how this partitioning is affected by environmental conditions. (eurekalert.org)
• Aboveground sink strength in forests controls the allocation of carbon below ground and its [CO2]-induced enhancement. (eurekalert.org)
• Carbon sequestration in plantation forests provides the main means by which New Zealand will meet its international climate change obligations in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012). (repec.org)
• This research paper provides the background for examining policy measures for encouraging carbon sequestration in plantation forests in New Zealand. (repec.org)
• Policy to Encourage Carbon Sequestration in Plantation Forests ," Working Papers 04_05, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. (repec.org)
• Let's revisit the past so we can figure out how to create the conditions that will drive the restoration of seaweed forests and the expansion of seaweed farming at scale so they can contribute to carbon drawdown while benefiting people and nature. (edf.org)
• Human-caused nitrogen deposition has been indirectly "fertilizing" forests, increasing their growth and sequestering major amounts of carbon, a new study in the journal Nature suggests. (innovations-report.com)
• Until now, it has been difficult to separate the effects of nitrogen deposition on forests from the many other variables that affect their carbon release or sequestration - things like forest age, logging, wildfires, disease or insect epidemics, or other causes. (innovations-report.com)
• This study attempted to do that, and found that the net carbon sequestration by temperate and boreal forests was overwhelmingly determined by nitrogen inputs. (innovations-report.com)
• Through our forests, fertilization by nitrogen deposition is to some degree offsetting our carbon dioxide emissions - at least right now," she said. (innovations-report.com)
• The results demonstrate that mankind is ultimately controlling the carbon balance of temperate and boreal forests, either directly through forest management or indirectly through nitrogen deposition," the study authors said. (innovations-report.com)
• Forests are currently sequestering carbon and may provide opportunities to mitigate fossil fuel emissions in the near-term until fossil fuel emissions can be reduced. (usda.gov)
• Because of the region's high productivity and industrial infrastructure, carbon sequestration via southern pine forests could be increased, and this may benefit the nation in terms of global policy commitments. (ingentaconnect.com)
• Estimates suggest that forests can store around 80 or more metric tons of carbon per acre. (purdue.edu)
• With an FCS subsidy set at the same rate as a carbon tax, the value drops to $80 per ton, mainly because forests are so efficient at sequestering carbon, making it responsible for a 21 percent share in the emission reductions. (purdue.edu)
• Forests have the capacity to both store and emit carbon. (gatrees.org)
• Wood products that are harvested from forests also provide long-term storage of carbon. (gatrees.org)
• The Registry has developed a protocol for estimating and reporting carbon stocks in forests. (gatrees.org)
• Forests are a significant part of the global carbon cycle. (wur.nl)
• The amount of carbon stored, however, changes over time as forests grow and mature. (wur.nl)
• Establishing plantations on former agricultural land may have less of an impact on increasing carbon sequestration than restoring natural forests. (wur.nl)
• The focus of this study was to estimate the carbon budgets and carbon sequestration potential of Indian forests, assessing the possible impacts of land-use changes and climate change on carbon stocks of Indian forests, and the mitigation potential of using forest-based bioenergy for fossil fuel substitution. (wur.nl)
• The results from this study show that over a 10-year period from 1992-2002, Indian forests have acted as a small carbon sink. (wur.nl)
• Thus, India with high population density, low forest cover per capita, high dependence of a large part of human population on forests, and a predominantly agrarian economy, has been able to reduce deforestation rate and increase its forest cover and associated carbon sink in the terrestrial biosphere. (wur.nl)
• Congress may consider options to increase the carbon stored (sequestered) in forests as it debates this and related issues. (novapublishers.com)

20172

• The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that in 2017, the United States emitted 5.1 billion metric tons of energy-related carbon dioxide , while the global emissions of energy-related carbon dioxide totaled 32.5 billion metric tons. (usgs.gov)
• Over 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon is sequestered on Georgia timberland according to 2017 Forest Inventory & Analysis (FIA) data, provided by the U.S. Forest Service. (gatrees.org)

Sequester carbon9

• The idea to sequester carbon is gaining support as a way to avoid global warming. (eurekalert.org)
• Can the Terrestrial Biosphere Be Managed to Conserve and Sequester Carbon? (springer.com)
• Butch Dalrymple Smith says we should plant trees and make things out of wood to sequester carbon (Letters, 3 August ). (newscientist.com)
• 100 years) will sequester carbon for a more graduated release, minimizing impact during the expected carbon crisis of the 21st century. (wikipedia.org)
• The world of carbonate chemistry is rocking over claims that a new kind of cement can sequester carbon. (psmag.com)
• Scientists at Caltech and USC have discovered a way to speed up the slow part of the chemical reaction that ultimately helps the earth to safely lock away, or sequester, carbon dioxide into the ocean. (innovations-report.com)
• Literature suggests forest carbon sequestration (FCS) is a good alternative to mitigate climate change due to its ability to sequester carbon at low cost. (purdue.edu)
• CarbonRally - Researchers at Caltech and USC have found an approach to accelerate the moderate piece of the concoction response that at last encourages Earth to securely bolt away, or sequester, carbon dioxide into the sea. (carbonrally.com)
• emissions because of large differences in their ability to sequester carbon in the soil. (trb.org)

Sinks10

• 2 using subsurface saline aquifers , reservoirs, ocean water , aging oil fields , or other carbon sinks , bio-energy with carbon capture and storage , biochar , ocean fertilization , enhanced weathering , and direct air capture when combined with storage. (wikipedia.org)
• 2 using subsurface saline aquifers , reservoirs, ocean water , aging oil fields , or other carbon sinks . (wikipedia.org)
• CO 2 sequestration includes the storage part of carbon capture and storage, which refers to large-scale, artificial capture and sequestration of industrially produced CO 2 using subsurface saline aquifers, reservoirs, ocean water, aging oil fields, or other carbon sinks. (wikipedia.org)
• Climate Change and Forest Sinks: Factors Affecting the Costs of Carbon Sequestration ," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management , Elsevier, vol. 40(3), pages 211-235, November. (repec.org)
• Climate Change and Forest Sinks: Factors Affecting the Costs of Carbon Sequestration ," Discussion Papers dp-99-31-rev, Resources For the Future. (repec.org)
• limate Change and Forest Sinks: Factors Affecting the Costs of Carbon Sequestration ," Working Paper Series rwp00-001, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. (repec.org)
• Much of the plant matter sinks to the bottom when the plant dies and the carbon remains there in ever increasing layers until the sea bottom moves and brings it back onto dry land. (yahoo.com)
• This belies the 'saturated sinks' assumption in the Bern sequestration model because the simple gross/net comparison shows carbon sinks must be growing significantly. (wattsupwiththat.com)
• CO2 sequestration can then be seen as being synonymous with the storage part of carbon capture and storage which refers to the large-scale, permanent artificial capture and sequestration of industrially-produced CO2 using subsurface saline aquifers, reservoirs, ocean water, aging oil fields, or other carbon sinks. (phys.org)
• India has the potential to create additional carbon sinks using marginal lands, while at the same time balancing economic development and environmental concerns. (wur.nl)

Renewable Energy3

• CCS offers a way to greatly reduce carbon emissions from electricity generation as we simultaneously expand renewable energy capacity and increase energy efficiency. (wri.org)
• these migrated to applications for wind energy, solar energy, other renewable energy sources, and now, carbon sequestration projects. (jdsupra.com)
• Carson, California [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] BP and Edison Mission Group (EMG), a subsidiary of Edison International, plan on building a new $1 billion, 500 MW hydrogen-fueled power plant in California, which, while not using renewable energy, will generate clean electricity and sequester its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. (renewableenergyworld.com)

Amount of carbon4

• By creating new bogs, or enhancing existing ones, the amount of carbon that is sequestered by bogs would increase. (wikipedia.org)
• and (3) the amount of carbon sequestered in products created from harvested wood. (ingentaconnect.com)
• Businesses that emit carbon can "offset" the amount of carbon they produce by buying carbon credits from forest landowners. (gatrees.org)
• If this amount of carbon dioxide were exchanged on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) market, the income earned would be 821 US$ ha - 1 . (scielo.br)

Dioxide emissions4

• Schematic showing both terrestrial and geological sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions from heavy industry , such as a chemical plant . (wikipedia.org)
• Human activities that lead to carbon dioxide emissions come primarily from energy production, including burning coal, oil, or natural gas. (usgs.gov)
• Schematic showing both terrestrial and geological sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions from a coal-fired plant. (wikipedia.org)
• Both the state and federal government have challenged businesses to take a leadership role in tackling carbon dioxide emissions. (renewableenergyworld.com)

Capture and storage17

• For details on removing carbon dioxide from point sources only, see Carbon capture and storage . (wikipedia.org)
• Carbon capture and storage , where carbon dioxide is removed from flue gases (e.g., at power stations ) before being stored in underground reservoirs. (wikipedia.org)
• For example, the European Union plans to invest billions of Euros within the next ten years to develop carbon capture and storage whereby CO2 will be extracted at power plants and other combustion sites and stored underground. (eurekalert.org)
• 77.02583 The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) is an international initiative to advance carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. (wikipedia.org)
• Membership is open to national governmental entities that are significant producers or users of fossil fuel and that have a commitment to invest resources in research, development and demonstration activities in carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies. (wikipedia.org)
• In 2006 and 2007, the International Energy Agency and the CSLF held a series of three workshops for invited experts from around the world on the topic of near-term opportunities for carbon capture and storage. (wikipedia.org)
• The CSLF has recognized 30 carbon capture and storage projects worldwide that demonstrate a wide range of CO2 capture, transport and storage research and activities. (wikipedia.org)
• Our results suggest that restoration of high plant diversity may greatly increase carbon capture and storage rates on degraded and abandoned agricultural lands. (nature.com)
• The EPSRC is funding collaborative R&D projects to undertake fundamental research which tackles challenges in carbon capture for CCS (carbon, capture and storage). (innovateuk.org)
• SOCORRO, N.M., August 12, 2011-- The Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration is moving forward with field deployment operations for Phase III of the Carbon Capture and Storage in the Gordon Creek field in central Utah. (nmt.edu)
• The energy loss is so great, according to Moomaw (who rounds-up to make a point) that you have to add a coal power plant for every three coal power plants using carbon capture and storage. (aiche.org)
• Carbon capture and storage technologies are essential to allow the continued use of coal to generate electricity while we substantially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to combat global warming. (americanprogress.org)
• Several recent congressional hearings on the deployment of carbon capture and storage technology require a look at why CCS is necessary and how best to implement it. (americanprogress.org)
• Several recent congressional hearings on the challenges associated with rapid deployment of carbon capture and storage technologies indicate CCS is at the center of the debate on how to reduce U.S. CO2 emissions. (americanprogress.org)
• Carbon Capture and Storage or has Elvis already left the building? (ecochildsplay.com)
• PUTTING GCCC RESEARCH INTO GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: COP25 Katherine Romanak reports back on carbon capture and storage from the UN climate talks. (utexas.edu)
• The winners of an £20m competition for innovative projects to reduce the cost of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) development were announced today. (environmental-expert.com)

Photosynthesis3

• This form of carbon sequestration occurs through increased rates of photosynthesis via land-use practices such as reforestation, sustainable forest management, and genetic engineering. (wikipedia.org)
• In particular, Cyanothece have the uncanny ability to produce oxygen and assimilate carbon through photosynthesis during the day while fixing nitrogen through the night, all within the same cell. (psychcentral.com)
• Terrestrial C sequestration is based on the natural process of photosynthesis . (rsc.org)

Sustainable4

• This device uses AI to optimize algae growth, carbon capture and algae output creating a product that is more sustainable, efficient, manageable and smaller in size than other bioreactor prototypes. (prnewswire.com)
• Sustainable forestry and carbon management practices are vital to a healthy environment for everyone. (gatrees.org)
• I chose to study biochar carbon sequestration because sustainable biochar systems are carbon-negative. (amnh.org)
• This all strikes me as a neat idea, and a potentially good way to store some carbon in the medium term while transitioning towards more sustainable building materials. (sindark.com)

Processes12

• Carbon dioxide may be captured as a pure by-product in processes related to petroleum refining or from flue gases from power generation . (wikipedia.org)
• Some artificial sequestration techniques exploit these natural processes, [6] while some use entirely artificial processes. (wikipedia.org)
• Carbon sequestration through biological processes affects the global carbon cycle. (wikipedia.org)
• By manipulating such processes, geoengineers seek to enhance sequestration. (wikipedia.org)
• Each of these storage media is analysed in detail to elucidate those processes responsible for the uptake and release of carbon. (springer.com)
• His research focuses on soil processes and carbon dynamics, and soil erosion and productivity. (google.com)
• Forest management activities have the potential to influence carbon sequestration by stimulating certain processes and mitigating impacts of negative factors. (unece.org)
• These above processes basically will capture carbon emitting from power plants, factories, fuel burning industries and so on. (wikipedia.org)
• New concrete manufacturing processes are not only green, they take carbon out of circulation. (psmag.com)
• In just six months of collaboration, a Department of Energy grand challenge led by Washington University in St. Louis has resulted in the sequencing and annotation of a cyanobacterium that could yield clues to how environmental conditions influence key carbon fixation processes at the gene-mRNA-protein levels in an organism. (psychcentral.com)
• The results of this Grand Challenge project will provide the first comprehensive systems level understanding of how environmental conditions influence key carbon fixation processes at the gene-mRNA-protein levels in an organism. (psychcentral.com)
• The project will also measure processes associated with carbon sequestration including soil aggregation and glomalin production. (trb.org)

Sink9

• There is a variance on how much the peatlands act as a carbon sink or carbon source that can be linked to varying climates in different areas of the world and different times of the year. (wikipedia.org)
• The key challenges are (i) documenting macroalgal carbon sequestered beyond BC habitat, (ii) tracing it back to source habitats, and (iii) showing that management actions at the habitat lead to increased sequestration at the sink site. (royalsocietypublishing.org)
• Because of the large carbon sink they support, incorporation of macroalgae into BC accounting and actions is an imperative. (royalsocietypublishing.org)
• This requires a paradigm shift in accounting procedures as well as developing methods to enable the capacity to trace carbon from donor to sink habitats in the ocean. (royalsocietypublishing.org)
• Research is also underway to identify and validate best management practices for soil C in the Partnership region, and to design a risk/cost effectiveness framework to make comparative assessments of each viable sink, taking into account economic costs, offsetting benefits, scale of sequestration opportunities, spatial and time dimensions, environmental risks, and long-term viability. (unt.edu)
• By far the largest carbon sequestration sink (and probably the fastest) is not fossil fuel formation, It is the formation of marine carbonate exoskeletons by single celled photosynthetic organisms (now mostly phytoplankton) like coccolithophores. (wattsupwiththat.com)
• The world ocean is the major sink for carbon dioxide and is estimated to contain more than 90% of the inventory. (earthtimes.org)
• SunFilter 1 will be able to sink more carbon dioxide and generate highly valuable carbon offset credits at less than half the price as before. (environmental-expert.com)
• Agricultural lands are believed to be a major potential carbon sink to absorb large quantities of carbon if trees are reintroduced with judiciously managed crops and/or animals (Albrecht and Kandji, 2003). (scielo.br)

Mitigate or defer global1

• Carbon sequestration describes long-term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to either mitigate or defer global warming and avoid dangerous climate change . (wikipedia.org)

Increase carbon1

• The ability to simulate and predict over time the fate of organic materials added to the soil,whether by litter or by additions of crop residues and organic manures through crop and land management,is fundamental to carbon accounting and to the formulation of scenarios of land use and LUC that may increase carbon sequestration. (fao.org)

Bioenergy3

• DECC, in collaboration with the ESKTN will be hosting a workshop on Friday 8 th March 2013 at Hamilton House in London, to present their developing bioenergy carbon calculator for the. (innovateuk.org)
• Retaining carbon in the soil-called carbon sequestration-significantly affects soil fertility and greenhouse gas emissions, so it has a major impact on the long-term sustainability of bioenergy crop production. (scienceblog.com)
• The book also investigates carbon biosequestration and bioenergy options of plantations, lessons from plantation forestry carbon sequestration, and carbon sequestration in agro forestry-block plantations or mangrove plantations. (novapublishers.com)

Search2

• Do a google search on carbon sequestration in the soil and you be amazed at the number of studies and the amount of mainstream research being done. (ibiblio.org)
• The project will combine advanced analytical chemistry, seascape ecology, modelling, and environmental microbiology to develop novel biomarkers to search for seaweed carbon within marine sediments, uptake and retention rates of seaweed carbon within marine sediments, and model seaweed carbon export from Australian coasts. (mail-archive.com)

Additional carbon3

• A complementary biodiversity payment can synergistically increase the supply of biodiversity services but will not provide much additional carbon sequestration. (www.csiro.au)
• Adding additional carbon dioxide to the sea will increase plant growth further. (yahoo.com)
• The fermented surface sea waters will in the long run circle to the profound where they can respond with the dead calcium carbonate shells on the ocean depths and kill the additional carbon dioxide. (carbonrally.com)

Injection7

• We develop a theoretical framework that analyzes the dynamic co-optimization of oil extraction and CO2 sequestration, through the producer's choice at each point in time of an optimal CO2 fraction in the injection stream (the control variable). (nber.org)
• Carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS, involves the capture of CO2 from power plants and other large industrial sources, its transportation to suitable locations, and injection into deep underground geological formations for long-term sequestration. (wri.org)
• Phase III large-scale carbon dioxide injection project will combine science and engineering from many disciplines to successfully sequester and monitor carbon storage. (nmt.edu)
• This work tells scientists how CO2 behaves and moves through underground formations and how to make sequestration work at different injection sites. (montana.edu)
• EPA has issued a final rule that establishes requirements for underground injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) to ensure safety and prevent the CO2 from causing groundwater contamination. (lexology.com)
• The injection of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has the duel benefit of sequestering the CO 2 and extending the life of some older fields. (wiley.com)
• This book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of two techniques that are rapidly increasing in importance and usage in the natural gas and petroleum industry - acid gas injection and carbon dioxide sequestration. (wiley.com)

Content2

• The grain has an oil content of nearly 35%, and because it is grown over winter during the Midwest's off-season, scavenging nitrogen left over after corn, it produces with a feedstock with very low carbon intensity. (danforthcenter.org)
• Currently, it is known that as the temperature during pyrolysis increases, total carbon content increases and volatile matter declines, leading to increased stability. (amnh.org)

Crops4

• ST. LOUIS, MO (October 20, 2020) - CoverCress, Inc., announced a new collaboration with the Salk Institute to improve plant yield, soil health and soil organic carbon storage in cover crops via cutting-edge technologies developed by the Salk's Harnessing Plants Initiative (HPI). (danforthcenter.org)
• We consider incentive mechanisms to encourage the planting of energy multi-annual crops that allow higher carbon sequestration rates for a longer period of time. (umn.edu)
• This model is then applied to the Central Plains of Thessaly, Greece to assess the marginal costs of carbon sequestration and the optimal timing of switching to multi-annual energy crops. (umn.edu)
• emission reductions with biodiesel, and a direct comparison of competing biodiesel feedstock crops has not been made with respect to net carbon emissions. (trb.org)

Partnership6

• The workshop was hosted by NRDC and Environmental Defense Fund, co-hosted by the West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership and the William C. Velasquez Institute, and co-sponsored by the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas, California Energy Commission, the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. (nrdc.org)
• The RCN-CCUS and Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS) partnership, which commenced in 2013 to facilitate educational outreach in the field of CCUS, has continued this year. (aiche.org)
• The Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership, led by Montana State University, is comprised of research institutions, public entities and private sectors organizations, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the Nez Perce Tribe. (unt.edu)
• The Partnership recognizes the critical importance of measurement, monitoring, and verification technologies to support not only carbon trading but all policies and programs that DOE and other agencies may want to pursue in support of GHG mitigation. (unt.edu)
• Finally, MSU is part of two organizations focused on carbon sequestration: the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership and the Zero Emissions Research and Technology Center (ZERT). (montana.edu)
• Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership - The Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership is one seven regional partnerships working to create a network of experts that will determine the best approaches for capturing and permanently storing greenhouse gases. (montana.edu)

Biochar4

• Alternatively, the wood from them must itself be sequestered, e.g., via biochar , bio-energy with carbon storage ( BECS ), landfill or 'stored' by use in e.g. construction. (wikipedia.org)
• Biochar is a carbon-rich charcoal and is obtained through pyrolysis. (amnh.org)
• The stability of biochar determines how long the carbon will be sequestered. (amnh.org)
• BC's multiple uses ( www.biochar-international.org ) and numerous benefits [ 1 ] include soil and crop improvement, carbon sequestration, retention of nutrients and water, reduced leaching, water purification as well as general and specialty industrial applications, and interest in and demand for BC are growing [ 2 ]. (intechopen.com)

Tons of carbon dioxide1

• The Phase III field deployment will demonstrate commercial-scale carbon storage technologies, planned to store a million tons of carbon dioxide per year, for sake of "proof-of-concept" of carbon storage in deep saline aquifers. (nmt.edu)

Emissions of carbon dioxide2

• Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) would need to fall by about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching 'net zero' around 2050. (prnewswire.com)
• The growth in emissions of carbon dioxide, implicated as a prime contributor to global warming, is a problem that can no longer be swept under the rug. (engineeringchallenges.org)

Biodiversity5

• Describes the treatment of carbon and biodiversity in the land use trade-offs model (LUTO), and reports key results. (www.csiro.au)
• However, the ability of markets to motivate the supply of carbon sequestration and biodiversity services from agricultural land is uncertain, especially given the future changes in environmental, economic, and social drivers. (www.csiro.au)
• We quantified the potential supply of these services from the intensive agricultural land of Australia from 2013 to 2050 under four global outlooks in response to a carbon price and biodiversity payment scheme. (www.csiro.au)
• The supply of carbon sequestration and biodiversity services was then quantified given potential land use change under each global outlook, and the sensitivity of the results to key parameters was assessed. (www.csiro.au)
• We conclude that a carbon market can motivate supply of substantial carbon sequestration but only modest amounts of biodiversity services from agricultural land. (www.csiro.au)

Reductions7

• Sustainability Zone had a great article a while back about the basics of carbon emissions reductions. (triplepundit.com)
• The growing awareness of the dangers of climate change has brought home the necessity of making major reductions in carbon emissions. (peterrussell.com)
• China, which now emits more carbon dioxide than any other nation, wants more economic growth before it will sign up to any reductions, and is fueling this economic growth by building coal-fired power stations at the rate of two-a-week. (peterrussell.com)
• However, when we include political inertia, the social challenges, and the reluctance of the principal contributors to even sign on to such a program, most of us, if we are honest with ourselves, will have to admit that there is very good chance that we will not be able to make the necessary reductions in carbon emissions in time. (peterrussell.com)
• Significant forest carbon sequestration leads to reductions in food supply at the same time we're expecting population increases. (purdue.edu)
• If we want to be serious about climate change, we need to implement carbon taxes to see reductions in emissions. (purdue.edu)
• US - Carbon sequestration and reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can occur through a variety of agriculture practices. (thepoultrysite.com)

Billion metr1

• In fact, a recent article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that agriculture worldwide had resulted in a loss of 133 billion metric tons of carbon from the soil. (organic-center.org)

Storage of carbon3

• As a result, total soil organic carbon is not necessarily an accurate proxy for understanding long term carbon storage ability in soil Measuring sequestration - the long term storage of carbon in the soil and the proportion of stable molecules that are responsible for that storage has been difficult and with previous methods it was not scalable to large studies such as this one. (organic-center.org)
• Carbon sequestration is a geoengineering technique for the long-term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon, for the mitigation of global warming. (phys.org)
• Tax credits for the capture and long-term, permanent storage of carbon oxides are intended to generate a competitive financial return and have a positive environmental impact. (jdsupra.com)

Macroalgal carbon1

• We recently reported that export of materials from macroalgal stands support a large carbon sequestration, comprised by macroalgal carbon buried in sediments or sequestered below 1000 m in the deep ocean ( Krause-Jensen and Duarte, 2016 ). (frontiersin.org)

Impacts2

• 3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) (Madison, WI, December 15, 2009) - Leonardo Academy announced today that it will hold a webinar on December 17 to present and discuss their recently-released white paper, " Defining Forest Sequestration Impacts: Tonne to Tonne-Year Correlations Implicit in Existing Forestry Offset Standards . (justmeans.com)
• Land use changes, especially afforestation and deforestation may have major impacts on carbon storage. (wur.nl)

Fossil12

• The other, accepting the fact that we are inevitably wedded to fossil fuels in the short term, is sequestration. (triplepundit.com)
• Large scale use of carbon sequestration could help to avoid extreme global warming that would otherwise occur in the near future unless fossil fuel emissions are reduced significantly. (eurekalert.org)
• Professor Shaffer concludes that "the dangers of carbon sequestration are real and the development of this technique should not be used as an argument for continued high fossil fuel emissions. (eurekalert.org)
• They have listed about a dozen or so modalities (more efficient appliances, hybrid cars, solar and other renewable energies, energy efficient buildings, sequestration, etc.) where each one will take up a 'slice' of the carbon needed to be removed to offset burning of fossil fuels. (ibiblio.org)
• Fossil fuels, which provide about 85 percent of the world's energy, are made of hydrocarbons, and burning them releases huge quantities of carbon dioxide. (engineeringchallenges.org)
• And the fossil fuel in greatest supply - coal - is the worst carbon dioxide emitter per unit of energy produced. (engineeringchallenges.org)
• The first-of-its-kind plant would test the theories surrounding carbon-sequestration as a solution to the emissions currently escaping fossil fuel-based power plants all across the U.S. and countries beyond. (renewableenergyworld.com)
• The growing demand for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) and insufficient fossil fuels in future act as the drivers for the carbon capture and sequestration market. (prnewswire.co.uk)
• So we make a rule that says if you want to put X amount of fossil carbon into the air, you have to find enough olivine or wollastonite or whatever to compensate for at least twice that much, grind it to dust and disperse it somewhere. (av8n.com)
• If you want to burn fossil carbon, the price ought to reflect the real total cost. (av8n.com)
• The neutralization requirement would add a noticeable (but not catastrophic) amount to the price of burning fossil carbon. (av8n.com)
• Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas and is emitted from burning materials like fossil fuels. (asknature.org)

Absorb carbon dioxide1

• As the marine plants grow they absorb carbon dioxide. (yahoo.com)

Ecosystem services1

• AFS has been proved to improve broader-level ecosystem services, including water quality enhancement, soil improvement, and carbon sequestration. (scielo.br)

Global23

• Global proposed vs. implemented annual CO2 sequestration. (wikipedia.org)
• Carbon capture and carbon sequestration-sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky or catching and storing it before it leaves power plants-might be an effective way to limit disastrous global warming. (technologyreview.com)
• But it would be hard to gauge the global leakage rate to be matched by re-sequestration. (eurekalert.org)
• Seventeen large scale carbon capture projects are now operating around the world, according to the Global CCS Institute , adding that a handful of others are under construction and several more are on the drawing board. (forbes.com)
• The research will help fulfil an important gap in our understanding of the contribution of seaweeds to global blue carbon sequestration. (mail-archive.com)
• The EU, for example, wants to set a target of halving carbon emissions by 2050 in order to keep the rise in global temperature below 2°C. If the temperature increases more than this, there is the very real danger of triggering runaway climate change . (peterrussell.com)
• The USA, which has the greatest carbon emissions per person (five times that of China), will not sign up to any treaty unless China does, and does not want to set a 2°C limit on global temperature increases because it would be too costly. (peterrussell.com)
• Each global outlook specified emissions pathways, climate, food demand, energy price, and carbon price modeled using the Global Integrated Assessment Model (GIAM). (www.csiro.au)
• We found that carbon supply curves were similar across global outlooks. (www.csiro.au)
• Based on GIAM-modeled carbon prices, little carbon sequestration was expected at 2015 under any global outlook. (www.csiro.au)
• The results were sensitive to global drivers, especially the carbon price, and the domestic drivers of adoption hurdle rate and agricultural productivity. (www.csiro.au)
• A recent piece of research called The Global Tree Restoration Potential shows that there is space to plant one trillion trees, and doing so over the next 50-100 years would mop up two-thirds of all carbon emissions. (permaculture.co.uk)
• Meeting Global Policy Commitments: Carbon Sequestration and South. (ingentaconnect.com)
• Engineers are working on ways to capture and store excess carbon dioxide to prevent global warming. (engineeringchallenges.org)
• Evidence is mounting that carbon dioxide's heat-trapping power has already started to boost average global temperatures. (engineeringchallenges.org)
• As most WUWT readers know, the issue of carbon sequestration is an important but largely IPCC undiscussed 'anthropogenic global warming' question. (wattsupwiththat.com)
• In a time (potentially, at least) of global warming, it is obviously imperative to understand the carbon flux within the world ocean and the parameters which may influence it. (earthtimes.org)
• Carbon dioxide has been implicated in the global climate change and reducing them is a potential solution. (wiley.com)
• DUBLIN , July 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7pk5g8/carbon_capture ) has announced the addition of the 'Carbon Capture & Sequestration Market - Global Trends & Forecasts To 2019' report to their offering. (prnewswire.co.uk)
• The report estimates the global carbon capture and sequestration market in terms of value ($ Billion). (prnewswire.co.uk)
• After many years of reviewing solutions to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) I believe this technology can manage Carbon for the greatest collective benefit at the lowest economic price, on vast scales. (polizeros.com)
• Man has been controlling the carbon cycle , and there for the weather, since the invention of agriculture, all be it was as unintentional, as our current airliner contrails are in affecting global dimming. (polizeros.com)
• S. E. Trumbore, "Potential Responses of Soli Organic Carbon to Global Environmental Change," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 94, No. 16, 1997, pp. 8284-8291. (scirp.org)

Organic carbon6

• A meta-analysis was carried out to investigate changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks at 0-15, 0-30, 0-60, 0-100, and 0 ≥ 100 cm, after land conversion to agroforestry. (springer.com)
• Don A, Schumacher J, Freibauer A (2011) Impact of tropical land-use change on soil organic carbon stocks-a meta-analysis. (springer.com)
• Agriculture in particular has been linked to large losses of soil organic carbon worldwide. (organic-center.org)
• The soil's total organic carbon is made up of two distinct pools - the labile carbon pool and a pool called humic substances. (organic-center.org)
• Hence, a fraction of the exported 24.3% NPP of seagrass meadows contributes to carbon sequestration beyond the meadows, so that the present focus on storage of organic carbon in sediments within seagrass meadows alone underestimates the true magnitude of the carbon sequestration that seagrasses support. (frontiersin.org)
• S. Kuo, U. M. Sainju and E. J. Jellum, "Winter Cover Crop Effects on Soil Organic Carbon and Carbohydrate," Soil Science Society of American Journal, Vol. 61, No. 1, 1997, pp. 145-152. (scirp.org)

Geological formations2

• As part of the drilling program under paragraph (2), the Secretary shall enter, as appropriate, into partnerships with other entities to collect and integrate data from other drilling programs relevant to the sequestration of carbon dioxide in geological formations. (house.gov)
• The region has a diverse array of geological formations that could provide storage options for carbon in one or more of its three states. (unt.edu)

Forest21

• the relationship between forest management and carbon dynamics, economic analyses of land use practices, important methodological issues arising from the use of GIS, remote sensing, carbon budgeting and scaling, and a review of the knowledge gaps in carbon and climate change. (google.com)
• Since 1990, the total forest carbon stock in Europe increased by 2 billion tons, i.e. an average of 137 million tons of carbon per year. (unece.org)
• The studies took place at a Free Air Carbon Enrichment (FACE) study established by the U.S. Department of Energy on the Duke Forest in Durham, NC. (eurekalert.org)
• and forest carbon ecology. (repec.org)
• The end result is a highly variable forest carbon cycle that appears to be heavily influenced by the footprint of humans, one way or another. (innovations-report.com)
• This broad study analyzed the carbon balance across a network of forest sites that represent nitrogen deposition in most of Western Europe and the continental United States. (innovations-report.com)
• What is surprising is that the net sequestration is quite large for a relatively low level of nitrogen addition," said Beverly Law, a professor of forest science at Oregon State University, co-author of the study and director of the AmeriFlux monitoring network in North and South America. (innovations-report.com)
• Using the analysis of carbon budgets based on forest inventories, we analyze the impact of forest management activities on carbon storage at the state and national level. (usda.gov)
• Determining how to recognize and reward existing forest owners for the carbon held in their forest is essential in successfully addressing climate change. (justmeans.com)
• MSU is also involved in terrestrial sequestration - using soil and forest management techniques to store excess carbon. (montana.edu)
• Leakage from forest carbon sequestration-the amount of a program's direct carbon benefits undermined by carbon releases elsewhere-depends critically on demanders' ability to substitute non-targeted timber for timber targeted by the program. (rti.org)
• Analytic, econometric, and sector-level optimization models are combined to estimate leakage from different forest carbon sequestration activities. (rti.org)
• Reducing greenhouse emissions by enough to meet the Paris Agreement would cost about $150 per ton without an equivalent subsidy for forest carbon sequestration (FCS). (purdue.edu)
• Tyner said forest carbon sequestration can be a piece, but only a small piece, of the puzzle in addressing climate change without advances in agricultural research that significantly increase crop yields. (purdue.edu)
• Forest carbon sequestration is not the silver bullet. (purdue.edu)
• Simply put, the Registry provides a record of carbon storage in registered forest land that may be used for many different purposes and does not assign dollar value to carbon. (gatrees.org)
• I wonder what the soil biome carbon concentration was REALLY like before the cutting and burning of the world's forest, my guess is that now we see a severely diminished community, and that only very recent Ag practices like no-till and reforestation have started to help rebuild it. (polizeros.com)
• In this study, carbon sequestration and wood production were evaluated on afforested farms by integrating the Gaussian diameter distribution model and exponential diameter-height model derived from sample plots of an afforested hardwood forest in Taiwan. (scielo.br)
• An estimated carbon sequestration of 11,254 t C was observed for a 189ha-hardwood forest which is equivalent to 41,264 t CO 2 . (scielo.br)
• As a result of changing the farming systems to hardwood forest in this study area, carbon sequestration and carbon storage have increased at the rate of 2.98 t C ha - 1 year - 1 . (scielo.br)
• While BC from wood has many applications, its use as a soil amendment in forest plantations is appealing as a long-term sequestration strategy and opportunity to grow more robust trees and increase survival rates. (intechopen.com)

Increases4

• They show also that cumulative sequestration is positively related to the oil price, and is in fact much more responsive to oil-price increases than to increases in the carbon tax. (nber.org)
• A trend from 1990 to 2005 shows that many European countries and the U.S. reported significant total carbon stock increases. (unece.org)
• Sharp increases in carbon sequestration supply occurred at carbon prices exceeding 50 $ tCO2−1 in 2015 and exceeding 65 $ tCO2−1 in 2050. (www.csiro.au)
• Optimal management with carbon sequestration mainly postpones thinnings, lengthens rotations, and increases sawlog yield. (umn.edu)

Significant4

• Evidence that macroalgae support significant carbon burial is compelling. (royalsocietypublishing.org)
• Globally, this calcification represents a very significant carbon flux from the seas surface waters to the seabed. (earthtimes.org)
• Here we review available evidence on the fate of seagrass carbon export to conclude that this represents a significant contribution to carbon sequestration, both in sediments outside seagrass meadows and in the deep sea. (frontiersin.org)
• Likewise, a significant fraction of seagrass net primary production may be sequestered elsewhere in the ocean, as the transport and sequestration mechanisms in operation are similar to those reported for macroalgal-derived carbon ( Krause-Jensen and Duarte, 2016 ). (frontiersin.org)

Coal6

• company Alstom unveiled the world's largest carbon-capture facility at a coal plant. (forbes.com)
• The term "sequestration formation" means a deep saline formation, unmineable coal seam, or oil or gas reservoir that is capable of accommodating a volume of industrial carbon dioxide. (house.gov)
• Two of the world's first coal-fired power plants with integrated carbon capture are nearing completion in Saskatchewan and Mississippi, providing a rare lift for a technology that has languished in recent years. (engineeringchallenges.org)
• Advanced methods for generating power from coal might also provide opportunities for capturing carbon dioxide. (engineeringchallenges.org)
• In coal-gasification units, an emerging technology, coal is burned to produce a synthetic gas, typically containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide. (engineeringchallenges.org)
• Coal-fired power plants work hard to heat and cool homes, but burning coal releases carbon dioxide that will need to be managed in the future. (phys.org)

Long term carbon1

• This study developed new methods to efficiently measure the molecules responsible for long term carbon storage in the soil. (organic-center.org)