carbon sequestration

British

noun

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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The farm also collects quantifiable data for soil carbon sequestration.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

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

Letting that land "get back to that native forest land as much as possible is going to help immensely with both carbon sequestration and biodiversity opportunities," said Panescu Scott.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2024

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

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