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carbon sequestration

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noun

  1. the prevention of greenhouse gas build-up in the earth's atmosphere by methods such as planting trees to absorb carbon dioxide or pumping carbon dioxide into underground reservoirs

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More recently, Weyerhaeuser programmed computers to sift through property attributes to identify opportunities for wind and solar power installations and carbon sequestration projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

California has billed Arbor — and the handful of other similarly aimed projects it’s financed — as a win-win-win: wildfire mitigation, clean energy and carbon sequestration all in one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

The latest research looked at data stretching back to the 1920s to quantify this carbon storage, also called carbon sequestration.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025

The new research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reconstructed bathymetry over the last 80 million years and plugged the data into a computer model that measures marine carbon sequestration.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024

Nature-based solutions like mangroves "can reduce coastal risk, but it can also get to the core problem we have for climate change which is carbon sequestration and carbon mitigation," said Mortlock.

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