carbon sequestration

British  

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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Example Sentences

They help slow climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in trees, a process known as carbon sequestration.

From Science Daily

The farm also collects quantifiable data for soil carbon sequestration.

From Barron's

"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.

From Science Daily

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

From Los Angeles Times

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