Nature's carbon-capturing machines are working overtime. Plants worldwide are absorbing about 31% more carbon dioxide than ...
By simulating the future atmosphere, scientists hope to understand whether trees will continue to act as the lungs of the ...
The stunning estimate offers hope that natural ecosystems in pan-tropical forests could help humans control global warming.
Replacing traditional construction materials with carbon-absorbing alternatives could cut global CO2 emissions by half, ...
Columnist Shannon Brennan writes that we must continue to plant trees, shrubs and flowers to help contain the carbon level.
A novel private plan in the late 1980s helped set the stage for planting trees as a means to sequester carbon emissions.
NUNAVUT – Parts of the Arctic tundra are now releasing more planet-warming gases than they absorb, an international ... amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane, generating a ...
They absorb carbon dioxide from the air while releasing water vapour and oxygen via photosynthesis – the process by which plants take in carbon dioxide and fix energy. Because of this, their leafy ...
The study suggests one of the main drivers of the shift could be thawing permafrost, frozen ground that covers almost half of ...