Sentences with phrase «vegetation as a carbon sink»
The study, recently published in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), details how NASA experts and their peers determined a stunning new way to conduct the normal «apples - to - apples» comparison between various forms of vegetation as a carbon sink.
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The U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification estimates that soil, as a sink for carbon dioxide, provides a larger reservoir than either vegetation or the atmosphere, calling its sequestration capabilities «unparalleled.»
As for plants soaking up the excess, forests and other vegetation are indeed major carbon sinks that can absorb lots of carbon — in other words, healthy forests could offset some of our global warming pollution.
He reasons that as the ice recedes, vegetation advances and normal photosynthesis starts acting as a carbon sink.
I never said that modest changes in vegetation would act as a sink for all the carbon emissions.
For the d13C levels of several parts of the carbon cycle see: http://homepage.mac.com/uriarte/carbon13.html There are only two sources of low d13C on earth: fossil fuels and vegetation decay, but as the biosphere is an overall carbon sink, thus specifically a 12C sink, it can't be a 13C sink.
As for plants soaking up the excess, forests and other vegetation are indeed major carbon sinks that can absorb lots of carbon — in other words, healthy forests could offset some of our global warming pollution.
If we stopped letting cattle graze on federal land and allowed the vegetation there to naturally regrow, we'd save on emissions from lowered beef production and increase the capacity of the land to serve as a carbon sink.