#carbonsinks — Public Fediverse posts

”When our rewilding program started, many big corporations offered us huge amounts of money if we certified carbon credits. We consulted with communities. But our answer was that we don’t sell nature.”

#climateFinance #wetlands #rewetting #prevention #deterrence #rewilding #Finland #Karelia #peatland #restoration #landUse #peatlands #nature #carbon #carbonSinks #CDR #wildfires #offsets #carbonOffsets #communities

A stream winds through fields on the Holnicote estate, #Somerset. The rewilding projects help “store water during drought… and slow water during extreme rainfall“.

“Nature is providing solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today,” said Ben Eardley, the project manager at the Holnicote estate.

“By reconnecting river systems with the surrounding area and creating natural sponges in the landscape, we’ve created a system that stores water during drought, keeping wetlands and the surrounding habitats healthy, and slows water during storms and periods of extreme rainfall, helping to protect villages from the risk of flooding downstream.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/21/somerset-rewilding-holnicote-estate-wetlands-rivers-resilience

#adaptation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #water #river #wetland #rewetting #resistance #drought #droughts #heatwaves #landSink #floods #flood #flooding

Let me start a thread on nature restoration, rewilding, reforestation 🧵

#adaptation #mitigation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #land #wetlands #rewetting #deterrence #prevention #drought #droughts #wildfires #heatwaves #landSink

Let me start a thread on nature restoration, rewilding, reforestation 🧵

#adaptation #mitigation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #land #wetlands #rewetting #deterrence #prevention #drought #droughts #wildfires #heatwaves #landSink

Forest degradation (continued)

"Southeast Asian forests have the strongest declines in aboveground biomass under increasing water limitation. […] Predicting tropical-forest carbon storage requires accounting for interactions among climate, disturbance, soil and topography".

Nunes, M.H., Muller-Landau, H.C., Görgens, E.B. et al. "Heterogeneous climatic controls on tropical-forest biomass" (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10880-2

#carbonSinks #forests #Asia #tropics #degradation #carbon #land #biogeography #ecology #soil

"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

"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

News From Knepp
Nancy Burrell writes about her PhD thesis.
"Rewilding, it seems to me, offers a genuine alternative pathway for tackling climate change, and one that delivers biodiversity, resilience and a host of other benefits alongside the carbon."
https://knepp.co.uk/2026/07/rewilding-is-a-carbon-sink/?mc_cid=519a996eaa

#NewsFromKnepp #ReWilding #Soil #WetLands #Nature #Climate #Knepp #BioDiversity #WildLife #CarbonSinks #SolarPunkSunday #NancyBurrell

Hanliang Gui et al. evaluated the performance of nine #TerrestrialEcosystemModels in simulating #GrossPrimaryProductivityand its temporal stability (TS) assessed the capability of numerical models to simulate the TS of ecosystem carbon uptake.

#ClimateChange | #CarbonSinks | #EcosystemStability | #RemoteSensing

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf193

Hanliang Gui et al. evaluated the performance of nine #TerrestrialEcosystemModels in simulating #GrossPrimaryProductivityand its temporal stability (TS) assessed the capability of numerical models to simulate the TS of ecosystem carbon uptake.

#ClimateChange | #CarbonSinks | #EcosystemStability | #RemoteSensing

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf193

#Greenspaces and #canals are very common in #Berlin, as seen in these #photos: the #treelined #SchlesischeStraße and the #Flutgraben #canal with the famous techno venue "#ClubderVisionäre." Green spaces and #waterways can be havens of #urban #biodiversity. However, canals can also release #greenhousegases, but they can simultaneously act as #carbonsinks.

© #StefanFWirth, June 2026

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"For years, the gradual thinning of African woodlands has mostly gone unnoticed because most monitoring systems were designed to spot clear-cutting, not slow declines in biomass" Kamusoko makes the case for better use of fully polarimetric SAR #SAR #earthobservation #biomassEstimation #carbonSinks
https://aigeolabs.com/are-we-measuring-the-wrong-thing-while-our-forests-disappear/

"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

Existing #TerrestrialEcosystemModels generally overestimate the carbon uptake stability due to insufficient characterization of vegetation phenology and physiological processes.

#TerrestrialEcosystemModels | #GrossPrimaryProductivity | #ClimateChange | #CarbonSinks | #EcosystemStability | #RemoteSensing

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf193

"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

#FootpathFriday
I love Springtime walks, around Garry oaks 💚

#GarryOak #trees #footpath #NatureWalk #Oaks #WalkingPaths #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #GnarlyTrees #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #CarbonSinks

Wood harvesting and forest management are depleting carbon storage. Old-growth forests in Sweden store ~72% more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference.

The top meter of soils in lowland primary forests contained roughly 64% of total C on average.

Didac Pascual et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz8554

#carbon #carbonSinks #deforestation #timber #emissions #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forestry #offsets

#Freshwater #lakes,like #Flughafensee #Berlin, play a complex #role in #globalwarming. Their #sediments are important #carbonsinks. However, they also release #CO2/#methane through microorganism activities. Furthermore, #lakeswarmup faster than surrounding air. L. Huang et al.(2024) address this and predict #shifts in #aquaticspecies #distributions and rearrangements of #freshwaterhabitats.
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3-Mar-2026
How an underground fungal map of the world’s oldest, slowest-growing #rainforest #trees can boost the resilience of Earth’s long-term #carbonSinks
Scientists demonstrate that a single 2,400-year-old tree protects hundreds, if not thousands, of underground fungal species.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1118515

#science #ecology #fungi #forests

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/

Earth’s Largest Land-Based Carbon Sink Has Sprung a Disturbing Leak

​​Often called the “lungs of Africa,” the Congo Basin is the world’s largest land-based carbon sink. For thousands…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #carbonemissions #carbonsinks #Climatechange #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/407960/

#ForestFriday a creek, meandering through lush, coastal temperate #rainforest.

#forest #nature #green #moss #biodiversity #trees #ferns #mosstodon #Tsouke #Sooke #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BeautifulWorld #botanical #ecosystem #ecological #environmental #CarbonSinks #creek #waterway #DisabledPhotographers #Hiking #photography #woodlands

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Overestimated Carbon Uptake Stability Due to Inadequate Vegetation Dynamics in Ecosystem Models

#TerrestrialEcosystemModels | #GrossPrimary | #Productivity | #ClimateChange | #CarbonSinks | #EcosystemStability | #RemoteSensing

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf193

"There is a major disconnect between the promises of carbon markets and the practical realities."

"99 per cent of farmers reported receiving no financial rewards."

"28 per cent of participating farmers discontinued these practices by the second year."

"27 per cent of farmers experienced a decline in yields."

#CarbonSinks #CarbonCredit #ClimateFinance #ClimateAction #FalseSolutions

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/99-farmers-in-haryana-and-mp-participating-in-voluntary-carbon-market-received-no-benefits-finds-study

#FlashbackFriday
Autumn 2020. *click pic for full view*
This is still my fave immersive #forest #mosses & #lichens appreciation portrait 💚☺️💚🌲

#Nature #GoldstreamPark #Trees #Green #Autumn #CoastalTemperateRainforest #DisabledHiker #PeopleWithDisabilities #Hiking #adventure #woodlands #Wsanec #VancouverIsland #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia #Canada #CarbonSinks #ConserveForests #mosstodon #lichensubscribe

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

#forests #forest #CO2 #emissions #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #deforestation #carbonFootprint #landUse #landUseChange #treeCover #Portugal #trees

Record leap in #CO2 fuels fears of accelerating #globalheating
#Carbondioxide in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean #carbonsinks are weakening
Atmospheric concentrations of #methane and #nitrousoxide — the second and third most important #greenhousegases related to human activities — also rose to record levels in #2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/15/record-leap-in-co2-fuels-fears-of-accelerating-global-heating #climate #climatechange