#carbonsink — Public Fediverse posts

Really proud of this paper coming out today in science, of which the last author is one of my colleagues. He had started thinking about this 15 years ago : one could suppose that the warming climate could lengthen the growing season for trees, and therefore increase their carbon uptake. The colleagues were however able to show that the warming climate has a negative impact on the growth rate of trees, which largely offsets the benefit of longer growing season on future forest carbon storage.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8866
#Forests #ForestCarbonStorage #CarbonSink #ClimateChange #AcademicChatter #Science

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

🧵 2/2.
Just above the Lecht ski centre, it was interesting to see an area of deliberately raising the water table to waterlog the peat, several different techniques are being used:

1. Turf piled up on the downslope to create a pond.
2. A series of small turf dams to slow the flow.
3. Wooden boards used to create dams to slow the flow.

And matting to protect the ground and retain vegetation.

#Cairngorms #CairngormsNationalPark #Lecht #Rewilding #Peatland #CarbonSink

Charities call for action on seabed trawling

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c869q293wl5o

#Sealife #CarbonSink #BlueCarbon #Environment #Biodiversity #Marine #WWF #TheWildlifeTrusts #RSPB

#NatureRestorationLawEU [snd]

Is it not strange...
that in the Dutch media the law is generally called "The NatureLaw"
and in the international (Eng Language) media is called by the actual name: "The Nature Restoration Law" ?
I suppose it has to do with Dutch framing by said media and politics. Given the recent conflict between 'Nature' vs 'Nitrogen' which has the country in virtual lockdown. (Housing, Roads and more prohibited because cattle farmers won't change their evil ways in a overcrowded country)

The law was PASSED yesterday, all be it by the skin of it's teeth, by the European Parlaiment and is now law in the European Union.

Some may (justifiably) say the law has been watered down to the bare minimum. They might be right in a to little too late kind of way.

But I like to see it in a non-defeatist kind of way:
It still is a MASSIVE WIN in providing #Nature and #Climate with a strong #LegalBase !

It promotes Nature as a #CarbonSink, combats #SoilDegradation and #SoilExploitation by #BigFarming, promotes #Diversity, it forces BigFarming to think of a better way of producing (change ! and of course BigFarming demand EU support as is their addiction).

In other words... this law forces a negotiation on the premise of nature, where BigFarming was used to get their way (and huge subsidies).
Farm Land -> Grazing Land -> Barren Land. Look for examples in Spain, Greece and Africa.

"EU lawmakers narrowly pass 'nature restoration bill' | DW News"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqWYFVjHnUQ

#NatureRestorationLawEU

Is it not strange...
that in the Dutch media the law is generally called "The NatureLaw"
and in the international (Eng Language) media is called by the actual name: "The Nature Restoration Law" ?
I suppose it has to do with Dutch framing by said media and politics. Given the recent conflict between 'Nature' vs 'Nitrogen' which has the country in virtual lock down. (Housing, Roads and more prohibited because cattle farmers won't change their evil ways in an overcrowded country)

The law was PASSED yesterday, all be it by the skin of it's teeth, by the European Parliament and is now law in the European Union.

Some may (justifiably) say the law has been watered down to the bare minimum. They might be right in a to little too late kind of way.

But I like to see it in a non-defeatist kind of way:
It still is a MASSIVE WIN in providing #Nature and #Climate with a strong #LegalBase !

It promotes Nature as a #CarbonSink, combats #SoilDegradation and #SoilExploitation by #BigFarming, promotes #Diversity, it forces BigFarming to think of a better way of producing (change ! and of course BigFarming demand EU support as is their addiction).

In other words... this law forces a negotiation on the premise of nature, where BigFarming was used to get their way (and huge subsidies).
Farm Land -> Grazing Land -> Barren Land. Look for examples in Spain, Greece and Africa.

"EU lawmakers narrowly pass 'nature restoration bill' | DW News"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqWYFVjHnUQ

#World2: How Much Do We Need to Save?

We know now that we're overshooting more than five times. But also the budget is gone by 2050. At that point, we are not supposed to emit anything anymore. What is left is what the trees, moors and oceans absorb. ...

#CarbonSink, #Forest, #ClimateCrisis, #Energy

@vegan

Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/world-2/06-how-much-to-save?c=mst