Sentences with phrase «sequesters vast amounts of carbon»

Flannigan refers to it as «legacy carbon,» an accumulation of centuries of plant matter that sequesters vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.

However, for the remainder of the Phanerozoic ca was less than 1000 ppm, consistent with the emergence of global forests that captured and sequestered vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere [Berner, 2003].

Conservation and restoration of ecosystems and agricultural soils has the potential to sequester vast amounts of carbon and provides food security and biodiversity benefits.

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Researchers have long known that tropical forests sequester, or store, vast amounts of carbon; recent estimates have put the total at between 225 and 250 billion tons.