carbon sequestration

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

Example Sentences

The farm also collects quantifiable data for soil carbon sequestration.

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"The bacteria and fungi and other organisms living in the soil can actually end up having important effects on things that matter, like carbon sequestration, nutrient movement and what we're particularly interested in -- the legacy effects on plants," said co-author Maggie Wagner, associate professor of ecology & evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas.

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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.

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Arbor portrays its solution as a flexible, carbon-negative and clean device: It can operate anywhere with a hookup for carbon sequestration.

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

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