A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer ...

Forest-based carbon-offset projects need a buffer to guarantee their climate benefits will last – but they may not have nearly enough in reserve ...

Little is known about how much carbon is removed from the atmosphere and stored in Christmas trees and orchard soils. A new project led by Dalhousie University researchers, along with the Nova Scotia ...

Oceans are better at storing carbon than trees. In a warmer future, ocean carbon sinks could help stabilize our planet February 14, 2022 by Rupert Sutherland, Professor of tectonics and geophysics ...

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are steadily rising because of human activities, which is wreaking havoc on the environment. Some of that excess carbon can also be stored in the so-called ...

'Best practice' carbon farming that considers more than just the carbon in trees is needed if the full benefits of trees in the landscape are to be realised by farmers and landholders, the CSIRO says.

We’re seeing immense wildfires and drought-driven forest die-offs much sooner than anyone had anticipated. When those trees die, that carbon goes back into the atmosphere.

This newsletter has often looked at the part trees can play as part of the climate change solution, with their ability to suck carbon out of the atmosphere and store it. As with so much else ...

Over a 10,000-year period, most of these tree-planting strategies are probably moot, North said, "because the trees eventually die one way or another, and that carbon does go back in the atmosphere." ...