Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage.

Carbon dioxide sinks Since 1750, continuously increasing anthropogenic CO 2 emissions and land-use change have perturbed the natural carbon cycle. Of the 9.1 Pg C yr −1 (1 Pg C = 1 petagram or ...

When it comes to energy policies, carbon capture, utilization and sequestration is one of the most controversial. The technology – where carbon is captured from industrial processes or from the ...

In these markets, carbon credits are purchased and traded to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions Greg Daugherty has worked 25+ years as an editor and writer for major publications and websites.

Google says it has wiped out its entire carbon footprint by investing in "high-quality carbon offsets". It became carbon-neutral in 2007 and says it has now compensated for all of the carbon it ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Economists are rarely ever unanimous. But one matter on which they almost all agree is the need for carbon ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

We Brits individually create on average 3 tonnes of carbon per year, or 8.2kg per day, from the food and drink we consume. So how do we reduce this? There are useful guidelines to follow when we ...

People, objects and even countries all have a carbon footprint. A carbon footprint is a number, often measured in tonnes, kilograms, or grams, that represents the total amount of carbon dioxide ...

China's President Xi Jinping addressing the UN via video link China will aim to hit peak emissions before 2030 and for carbon neutrality by 2060, President Xi Jinping has announced. Mr Xi outlined ...