| As trees take root, they would begin absorbing carbon dioxide, turning the region back into a carbon sink. |
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| Besides that, firewood adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, while furniture or other products will act as a carbon sink for years and years. |
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| Quite apart from trees being a carbon sink and saving us from environmental disaster, we often overlook the meaning it can give to our lives. |
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| The forest will provide some much-needed lung space to Bangaloreans and act as a carbon sink by absorbing vehicular and other emissions. |
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| This could be achieved by recognizing soil carbon storage as an eligible carbon sink in all land use systems in the post-2012 Kyoto regime. |
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| Destroying the Amazon would also turn what is a significant carbon sink into a significant source. |
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| They have been suggested as a major carbon sink, removing carbon dioxide from the air. |
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| They help maintain quantity and quality of water, prevent soil erosion, and constitute a carbon sink that stores greenhouse gases. |
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| Such processes result in growing vegetation being considered a carbon sink. |
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| The carbon stored in forests and in wood is the most important carbon sink after oceans. |
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| Iberia's oak forests are a vital carbon sink for the whole of Europe. |
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| Other priorities aim at a better understanding of terrestrial biodiversity and on the role of soil as a carbon sink. |
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| Some scientists have indicated that the maintaining of carbon sink forests for long periods will be difficult. |
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| High biodiversity ecosystems and established carbon sink lands will not be harmed from crop production. |
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| But, we ask in the current issue, can the ocean continue to cope with being a vast carbon sink? |
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| Edwards says they've been working for over 10 years to get the government to recognize wetlands as a carbon sink. |
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| A consequence of this increase is a decrease in the quantity of phytoplancton, which is itself a carbon sink no less important than the forests. |
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| Then assess their answers and summarize the role of trees as a carbon sink. |
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| Furthermore, it is questionable whether forests could be used as carbon sink in order to achieve the Kyoto emission targets. |
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| So it too was awarded the opportunity to obtain even more credits from carbon sink activities. |
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| The oceans are normally a natural carbon sink, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. |
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| While a temporary high utilisation rate is not necessarily unsustainable, given that the forest age-class structure is positively skewed in many MS, it could turn forests from a carbon sink into a temporary source. |
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| Most of the new land for dairying comes from the clearing of plantation forests, thus turning a presumed carbon sink into a generator of methane emissions. |
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| The pyrolysis of biomass to produce biochar that can be applied to soil as a soil improvement, thereby making the soil a carbon sink, looks promising. |
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| Ordinarily peat bogs are a huge carbon sink. |
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| Turning agriculture into a carbon sink is not a dream. |
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| It takes care of itself and acts as a vast carbon sink. |
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| As a carbon sink, the continent plays an essential role in global weather. |
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| Speaking of the gale that had devastated the Forêt des Landes in January 2009 he said this was not a local disaster but one which affected the whole continent since it had resulted in the destruction of a large carbon sink. |
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| Reasons stated for protecting the Greenbelt included reference to its function and value as accessible greenspace, a carbon sink and as a home to ecological functions important to the region. |
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| This organic component of the soil is highly important: not only does it make it much more fertile, it also enables the soil to act as a major carbon sink. |
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| The Mer Bleue ecosystem is globally unique, not only in terms of size, but also in form, in its plants and wildlife, and in the chemistry that turns it into a virtual carbon sink. |
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| Setting aside the effect of a drought in a specific year, the authors of the study stress the fragile nature of the rainforests' carbon sink capacity. |
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| Therefore the buffer covers potential subsequent alterations to the carbon sink, and releases part of the offsets in fine if no degradation has been observed. |
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| Of course, the ocean itself is a large carbon sink, storing about a quarter of what would otherwise end up in the atmosphere. |
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| The Boreal forest is the world's biggest carbon sink and it offers the best way to take carbon out of the atmosphere. |
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| The gradual accumulation of decayed plant material in a bog functions as a carbon sink. |
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| In the 1970s the tundra was a carbon sink, but today, it is a carbon source. |
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| This process, called the biological pump, is one reason that oceans constitute the largest carbon sink on Earth. |
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| In addition, it will take decades for newly planted trees to mature, replace the felled trees, and once again act as a carbon sink. |
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| This is a carbon sink that boosts biodiversity and also has the capacity to produce food. |
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| The ESB and Bord na Mona should be providing permanent jobs, rather than ones that result in the destruction of the carbon sink in the bogs. |
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| Relatively young carbon isn't definitive proof that desert irrigation is a carbon sink, says biogeochemist Akihiro Koyama of Algoma University in Sault Ste. |
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| While tropical rainforests have more biodiversity and turnover, the immense conifer forests of the world represent the largest terrestrial carbon sink. |
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| The peatland ecosystem is the most efficient carbon sink on the planet, because peatland plants capture CO2 naturally released from the peat, maintaining an equilibrium. |
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