Stopping land degradation is critical in mitigating climate change: soil is the second largest carbon sink after the ocean, but degraded land stores much less carbon. (www2.unccd.int)
fourth, Jeff Huggins (5) I want to thank you for being so honest in expressing your view that any mention of things such as a potentially large carbon sink is merely a distraction when the REAL story that should be covered is the oil industry. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Then there is the whole issue of the original production and extraction of tar sands: violations of First Nations treaties with Canada, cancer causing by - products in waterways, destruction of the Boreal Forest — one of our remaining large carbon sinks, and the energy and water intensive extraction methods. (earthinbrackets.org)