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Rui Malheiro · @chromatic
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@cowvin plants do capture carbon, but they don't really *store* it. Most plants have a very short lifetime and, when they die, the captured carbon is returned to the environment. Even during their lifetime, plants release some of that carbon as fallen leaves or branches. That's the short term carbon cycle.

Real carbon storage is only viable deep underground in deposits of fossilised organic matter that take millenia to form. That's the (very) long term carbon cycle.

Even *if* we could grow huge forests to capture some of the excess carbon we have been extracting from the long term carbon cycle, we would only be postponing the inevitable until we run out of space to grow trees and overload the short term carbon cycle.

The *only* sensible response to the emergency situation we are living is to *completely* and *immediately* stop extracting carbon from long term reserves.

@breadandcircuses

#greenwashing #GreenGrowth #ClimateCrisis #carboncapture #carbonsink

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anna_lillith šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦šŸŒ±šŸ– · @anna_lillith
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And if you look even higher -- up to our atmosphere -- you'll find another important benefit. The boreal's trees are a , soaking up enough each year to offset the global warming of 24 million cars.

Now, back to . Shelves lined with signature toilet paper can't compare with the beauty and majesty of forested lands in the world's "northern lungs."

3/5

sfgate.com/local-donotuse/arti

#kirkland #costco #pollution #carbon #carbonsink

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AutisticMumTo3 She/her šŸŒˆ · @AutisticMumTo3
589 followers · 18113 posts · Server leftist.network

#deepsea #deepseamining #isa #carbonsink #climatecrisis #globalwarming #UNCLOS #TheMetalsCompany #nauru #2YearRule #OceanEcosystems #japan #DeepSeaMiningTest

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Steve Paradis · @SteveSilent
347 followers · 13308 posts · Server thecanadian.social
YouTube - You Arenā€™t Paying Enough Attention to Moss

#moss #rainforest #primaryforest #carbonsink #oldgrowth #forest

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Shades · @shades
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"New research finds that a warming climate could flip globally abundant microbial communities from carbon sinks to carbon emitters, potentially triggering climate change tipping points. The findings are published in Functional Ecology."

phys.org/news/2023-05-climate-

#britishecologicalsociety #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #climate #ocean #plankton #microbes #carbon #carbonsink #FunctionalEcology

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PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
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#forestfriday #eldertree #WorthMoreStanding #SaveOldGrowth #laststandforforests #oldgrowth #stopecocide #stopclearcuts #forestdefender #Grogu #stopdeforestation #saveancientforests #carbonsink #climatechange #vanisle #vancouverisland #pnw #pacificnorthwest #cascadia #britishcolumbia #canada #bcndp #newdeathparty #greedkillsnature #conservation #ecology #biodiversity #ecosystems #environmental #protectforests #treesovergreed #stopkillingtrees

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Bongolian · @Bongolian
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San Francisco Chronicle - The S.F. Bay Area hosts one of the best carbon sinks in the world

Tara Duggan: Why the Bay Area is home to one of the most effective carbon sinks in the world: Dutch Slough, a restored wetland in Contra Costa County, stores carbon at a higher rate than nearly all other sites studied around the world. Hereā€™s why.

"Dutch Slough, a restored wetland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near the town of Oakley, stores carbon at such a high rate that it is in the top 1% of thousands of locations studied worldwide, from pine forests to arctic tundra, according to UC Berkeley scientists who have worked at the site since last year."


sfchronicle.com/climate/articl

#contracosta #sfbayarea #California #ClimateChange #carbonsink

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GregCocks · @GregCocks
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#carboncycle #ClimateChangeMitigation #restorationecology #ecosystem #restoration #security #Food #sustainable #agriculture #pal #gis #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #ecosystems #soil #soilhealth #carbonsink #recarbonisation #soilorganiccarbon #FoodSecurity #global #carbonstocks

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GregCocks · @GregCocks
211 followers · 270 posts · Server techhub.social
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#carboncycle #ClimateChangeMitigation #restorationecology #ecosystem #restoration #security #Food #sustainable #agriculture #pal #gis #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #ecosystems #soil #soilhealth #carbonsink #recarbonisation #soilorganiccarbon #FoodSecurity #global #carbonstocks

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Hari Tulsidas :verified: · @haritulsidas
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Scientists have discovered a rare window in the Drake Passage, where carbon sinks quickly into the deep ocean. The Drake Passage is a turbulent region between Antarctica and South America, where cold and warm currents collide. The scientists used underwater robots to measure how undersea mountains and fast currents create eddies that transport carbon-rich phytoplankton to the depths.

theconversation.com/in-the-tur

#drakepassage #carbonsink #oceanography

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C.Dittkrist · @cdittkrist
19 followers · 4881 posts · Server nrw.social
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RT @PCarterClimate
LAND CARBON SINK LOSING CO2 DRAW-DOWN CAPACITY
Surface heating cuts CO2 draw down by plants reducing land carbon sink capacity. Temperatures are now past critical and increasing. Known since 2001 IPCC TAR
science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/s

#carbonsink #co2 #climatechange #globalwarming

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Hans Bot · @hansbot
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hold a huge potential doubling as a , huge swaths of coastal waters in the process oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bl

#offshore #WindFarms #blue #carbonsink #rewilding

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Wif Stenger · @wifsten
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News - Finland's carbon neutrality goal at risk due to slow forest growth, warns WMO Chief Taalas

Finland's carbon neutrality goal at risk due to slow forest growth, warns WMO Chief Taalas


yle.fi/a/74-20024218

#carbonneutrality #SannaMarin #PetteriTaalas #wmo #emissions #forest #carbonsink #finland

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PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
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's wild is covered in a thick blanket of snow right now, but beneath it lies a of life.Ā Ā 
Billions of tonnes of areĀ storedĀ under & they're a in the struggle to maintain a healthy .Ā 

cbc.ca/amp/1.6788647

#saskatchewan #prairie #storehouse #carbon #canadian #grasslands #criticaltool #climate #swalewatchers #indigenous #landguardians #carbonsink #protectgrasslands #nativestewardship #canada #climateaction #firstnations #environmental #carbonstorage #SaveSoil

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PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
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#globalstudy #universityofbristol #carbonsink #vulnerability #recovering #tropical #forests #vital #climatechange #potential #data #deforestation #degradation #outstripping #regrowth #stopdeforestation #stopecocide #stopclearcuts #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #protectoldgrowth #climateaction #ecojustice #ecology

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ATJ · @atriverside
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The Wetland Atlas describes the distribution of in & summarizes human footprint around open water wetlands. Also included are research spotlights on including: aquatic invertebrates, wetland-associated mosses, amphibians, & plants. This first edition of the Atlas represents the state of the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute's (ABMI) wetland knowledge to date

wetland-report.abmi.ca/atlas-h

#wetlands #alberta #wetlandbiodiversity #canada #breathinglands #peatland #carbonsink #wetlandecosystem

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ATJ · @atriverside
190 followers · 1043 posts · Server mastodon.social

In depth 2020 summary of:

The battle for the ā€˜breathing landsā€™: Ontarioā€™s Ring of Fire and the fate of its carbon-rich peatlands

"Northern Ontario's muskeg serves as home to dozens of First Nations, stores immense amounts of carbon and sits on top of vast mineral deposits. Whose vision for the bogs and fens will win out?"

thenarwhal.ca/ring-of-fire-ont

#canada #breathinglands #cree #firstnations #muskeg #peatland #ontario #carbonsink #wetlandecosystem

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ATJ · @atriverside
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moss is one of the most important and abundant groups of moss found in the Flow Country. Due to its ability to create by locking away huge amounts of carbon it plays a vital role in preventing further climate change.


youtu.be/EwchVWp6trw

#sphagnum #peatlands #mosstodon #blanketbog #carbonsink #FlowCountry #documentary

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Lars Ɩberg · @larsoberg
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#photography #home #rural #cabin #solarenergy #wood #wildernessculture #sunlight #annualrings #annualgrowth #storedenergy #combustion #carbonsink #solarpower #fuel #biofuel #bioenergy

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anna_lillith šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦ · @anna_lillith
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Mongabay Environmental News - Peat on land and kelp at sea as Argentina protects tip of Tierra del Fuego

ā€™s largest gets permanent protection Over 459,000 acres of sea surrounding the Peninsula will be protected, restricting human activity and preserving and marine .

news.mongabay.com/2022/12/peat

#ecosystems #kelpforests #mitre #carbonsink #argentina

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