According to a predictive model, the microalgae present in peat bogs could offset up to 14% of future CO2 emissions, thanks to their photosynthetic activity. This conclusion was reached by basing the ...

Carbon cycle–climate feedbacks are expected to diminish the size of the terrestrial carbon sink over the next century. Model simulations suggest that nitrogen availability is likely to play a ...

A weakening of the North Atlantic overturning circulation would cause the ocean to absorb less carbon dioxide - and this is ...

Researchers used a climate simulator on Australia’s fastest supercomputer to model changes in the ACC ... in the ocean’s capacity to act as a carbon sink,” Gayen says in the statement.

Forest carbon sinks, or green carbon, refers to carbon dioxide transferred from the atmosphere and stored in timber, roots or forest products, the ministry said. Such nature-based carbon sinks have ...

While this process can contribute to the corrosion of reinforcing steel bars in concrete structures, it also enables concrete structures to function as carbon sinks. Professor Ippei Maruyama of ...