Tag: carbon sequestration
The world’s boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes...
Ronny Rotbarth, Wageningen University; David J. Cooper, Colorado State University; Logan Berner, Northern Arizona University, and Roman Dial, Alaska Pacific University
What is a wetland? An ecologist explains
Jon Sweetman, Penn State
Wetlands are areas of land that are covered by water, or have flooded or waterlogged...
Peatlands keep a lot of carbon out of Earth’s atmosphere, but...
Julie Loisel, Texas A&M University
Peatlands are a type of wetland where dead plant material doesn’t fully decompose because it’s too soggy. In these ecosystems,...
Tiny plankton drive processes in the ocean that capture twice as...
Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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The ocean plays a major role in...
Soil carbon is a valuable resource, but all soil carbon is...
Jocelyn Lavallee, Colorado State University and Francesca Cotrufo, Colorado State University
Human society is literally built on soil. It feeds the world and produces vital...
Sea creatures store carbon in the ocean – could protecting them...
Heidi Pearson, University of Alaska Southeast
As the prospect of catastrophic effects from climate change becomes increasingly likely, a search is on for innovative ways...
Protecting the world’s wetlands: 5 essential reads
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
World Wetlands Day on Feb. 2 marks the date when 18 nations signed the Convention on Wetlands in 1971, in the...
Mapping the world’s ‘blue carbon’ hot spots in coastal mangrove forests
Robert Twilley, Louisiana State University and Andre Rovai, Louisiana State University
Human actions have boosted carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to levels...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
