#carbonsink — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #carbonsink, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@mustapipa/117137230074004940
If economics can be said to speak, it needs to shout LOUDLY about proper green regeneration (rather than plant-a-tree make-work): “Scientists found that natural #forest regeneration delivered substantial carbon and #biodiversity benefits and could be up to 96% cheaper than traditional tree-planting programs.” 🌳🌲🌴🎄
Fabulous news - thanks so much for sharing! 😀🙏🏻
#regeneration #forestRegeneration #costBenefit #carbonSink #RoI
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"Land management categories should be disaggregated in emissions reporting and targets".
"Targets should acknowledge the need for Geological Net Zero, meaning one tonne of CO₂ permanenty restored to the solid Earth from every tonne still generated from fossil sources."
"By adding to cumulative emissions, any entity, country or corporation adds to the total passive carbon sink that needs protection for the foreseeable future."Allen et al. (2024). https://rdcu.be/d9Rnm
#accounting #accountability #accountancy #fossilFuels #climateChange #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #targets
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"Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense, lush canopies at the start of one of Earth’s most intense episodes of greenhouse warming. But those canopies began to thin."
"The structure of a forest – and importantly its canopy – controls the amount of light that reaches the forest floor, the temperature, water habitat and amount of carbon the forest can store, making it one of the clearest indicators of ecosystem function."
"Forest canopies opened, exposing the ground to more sunlight and altering the movement of water through the landscape."
"As temperatures climbed, heat and drought overwhelmed the benefits of higher carbon dioxide levels. The canopy rapidly thinned as trees died, and it remained much thinner for over 100,000 years."
"Ancient soils gave way to coarser river deposits".Regan E. Dunn writes: https://theconversation.com/ancient-forests-took-100-000-years-to-recover-from-the-last-global-warming-period-similar-to-today-wyoming-fossils-reveal-what-happened-289462
#forests #ecology #climateChange #degradation #droughts #deforestation #forest #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #soil
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#Wildfires Pushing Canadian Forests from #CarbonSink to Source, New Study Finds
https://www.theenergymix.com/wildfires-pushing-canadian-forests-from-carbon-sink-to-source-new-study-finds/ #climate #canada
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16-Jul-2026
The rapid drying of the #AralSea turned a #carbonSink into a major #carbonSourcehttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1135708
Not surprisingly, as the whole thing is a major disaster zone, see my feature from 2017:
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"The authors report that the occurrence of extensive deforestation in tandem with climate change will cause the remaining rainforest to lose resilience at global-warming levels of or slightly higher than 1.5 °C — rather than 4 °C — above pre-industrial levels".
Wunderling, N., Sakschewski, B., Rockström, J. et al. "Deforestation-induced drying lowers Amazon climate threshold." (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10456-0
#droughts #deforestation #landGrab #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forest #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #Brazil #beef #cattle #Amazon #Amazonia #climateChange
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"Cascading transition risks towards degraded ecosystems in the #Amazon biome[:] The large majority of the simulated transitions is caused by spatial knock-on effects from increasing drought intensities, leading to long-ranging and self-propelling cascades on scales of hundreds to thousands of kilometres."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10456-0
#droughts #deforestation #landGrab #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forest #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #Brazil #Mercosur #beef #cattle #Amazonia
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#FlashbackFriday 2019.
Big Lonely Doug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world. Found along the Pacific Circle Route, between #PortRenfrew & Lake #Cowichan - in the Gordon River valley range. It's surrounded by clearcuts. You can't miss seeing it because it stands out, amongst the ecocide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug
#StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #PacheedahtTerritory #VancouverIsland #photography #VanIsle #Cascadia #Fir #ElderTrees #PacificNorthwest #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #CarbonSink #Ecological #Climate #Environmental #biodiversity #nature #WorthMoreStanding #BritishColumbia #Canada #Degrowth #StopEcocide
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New publication: The #global extent of the #grassland biome and implications for the #terrestrial #carbonsink.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02955-6 -
Q: What links the iconic and critically endangered #BlackCockatoo, the 'inevitable' pollution of #FreshWater for a city of millions, the destruction of a major #CarbonSink, and whether putative #democracy means anything in these lands now called Australia to the #EpsteinFiles, massacred schoolgirls in #Minab and skyrocketing fossil fuelled #inflation?
A: The decision by PM #Albanese to sign a 'Critical Minerals Deal' with #DearLeader in Oct 2025.
Explained here: https://mineralpolicyinstitute.substack.com/p/honest-government-ad-on-gallium-water.
Or simply watch the latest instalment of #HonestGovernmentAds from #JuiceMedia: https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ad-alcoa-vs-northern-jarrah-forest/
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Helping Trees—and a City—Outrace Climate Change
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Nearly a foot of snow has melted. The deep freeze that sent temperatures across the region plummeting…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #AssistedMigration #carbonsink #carbonsinks #climatechange #kentucky #Louisville #Science #trees #TreesLouisville
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/501311/ -
The Year The #ArcticTundra Went From #CarbonSink to Carbon Source : Medium
A #Record-Breaking #Drill Beneath #Antarctic #Ice Revealed a Big #Surprise : Misc
#Webb #Telescope Uncovers #HydrogenSulfide on Super-#Jupiters, Offering New #Clues About #Planet Formation : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#JWST fully solves the #Mystery of “Little #RedDots” : Medium
#China has planted so many trees around the #Taklamakan #Desert that it's turned this '#Biological void' into a #CarbonSink : Live Sci
#Researchers unlock #FiberOptic connection 1.2 million times faster than #Broadband : Pop Sci
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Integrating Characteristic Arctic Vegetation In A Land Surface Model Improves Representation Of Carbon Dynamics Across A Tundra Landscape
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG009039 <-- shared paper
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[ https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091839 <-- shared paper ]
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#tundra #arctic #vegetation #spatialanalysis #arcticwarming #warming #climate #carbon #carbonsink #carbonsource #carbondynamics #carboncycle #EnergyExascale #earthsystemmodels #ESM #model #modeling #plant #functional #PFT #Alaska #Seward #Peninsula #casestudy #biomass #ecosystem #remotesensing #scaling #drone #aircraft #insitu #GIS #spatial #sampling #earthsystem -
My #PhotoArt tribute to #BigLonelyDoug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world.
Learn more about this lonely #OldGrowth tree:
"It has the third highest tree score and third widest diameter of any known Douglas-fir in Canada, following the Red Creek Fir in the nearby San Juan Valley and the Bonin Giant in the Coquitlam River watershed in British Columbia's Lower Mainland"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug#SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #PortRenfrew #Pacheedaht #Dididaht #TreeLovers #fir #EarthNeedsGuardians #nature #CarbonSink #Climate #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CapitalismKillsEverything #Environmentalist #PhotoEdit #VisualArt #ThickTrunkTuesday
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The #Technosphere: The Hidden #CarbonSink : Medium
#SpatialIntelligence Is #AI’s Next #Frontier : Time
How Did the #CIA Lose a #Nuclear Device in the #Himalayas? : NY Times
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly
#Science #Environment #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Plants #EarthHistory #CarbonCycle #GlobalWarming #SoilCarbon #CarbonSink #CarbonSequestration #The14
https://the-14.com/56-million-years-ago-the-earth-suddenly-heated-up-and-many-plants-stopped-working-properly/ -
"Professor Michael Ramage of the University of Cambridge calculated that erecting a 300-square-metre, four-storey student residence in wood generated only 126 tonnes of CO2 emissions. If it had been made with concrete, the tally would have risen to 310 tonnes. If steel had been used, emissions would have topped 498 tonnes. Indeed, the wood building can be viewed as ‘carbon negative’ as there is the equivalent of 540 tonnes of CO2 stored in the timber, resulting in a long-term removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.... UK’s major house builders are shifting from brick and block structures to timber frames, in part because it’s a faster and more accurate way to build. This will significantly reduce the climate footprint of UK house building. It is also a shift that will bring England in line with Scotland where over 90% of family homes are already built with a timber frame"
https://www.operationnoah.org/timber-as-a-climate-solution/
#CarbonSink #buildings #CarbonFootprint #environment #architecture -
Cattle accounts for 36 percent of tree cover loss from agriculture
(Please read methodology notes in Alt text.)
#deforestation #landGrab #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forest #CO2 #emissions #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #carbonFootprint #Paraguay #Brazil #Mercosur #beef #cattle #soy #soybeans #palmOil #rubber #Amazonia #Pantanal #Cerrado
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#PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #carbonSink #carbonBudget Paul & Newton ESP* help us understand the global carbon budget #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis (*Emotional Support Puppy ❤️)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:goyko7xu2ovkegs3g3isrdhz/post/3m5ptgiddfk25 -
#carbonSink #CO2 #carbonBudget
Original article (paywalled, log in to your local university library to read)
Friedlingstein et al. 12 Nov. 2025, Nature
Emerging climate impact on carbon sinks in a consolidated carbon budget
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09802-5
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulbeckwith/115557396262192934
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #carbonSink #CO2 #carbonBudget
Paul and Newton ESP* help us understand the concept of the global carbon budget.
(*Emotional Support Puppy ^.^)
#climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
