Ecosystem productivity shapes how soil microbes store or release carbon, challenging old assumptions

Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...
Forbes

‘Marine Snow’ Could Help Drown Our Carbon Crisis—A Biologist Explains

With carbon emissions continuing to grow exponentially, the key to unlocking a greener world could lie in the feeding (and pooping) habits of these miniscule marine organisms. “Marine snow,” a ...
Forbes

Space Intelligence Brings Rigor To Forest-Based Carbon Credits

Space Intelligence's co-founders, Chief Scientist, Professor Ed Mitchard (l), and CEO, Dr. Murray Collins (r). Photo taken in route to measure the carbon sequestration potential of tree for a project ...
Nature

Phytoliths And Carbon Sequestration In Terrestrial Ecosystems

Phytoliths are microscopic silica structures formed within plant tissues that encapsulate organic carbon during their development. The phenomenon of phytolith-occluded carbon (PhytOC) represents a ...
Mongabay

Soil carbon: Crucial ally or potential threat to net-zero commitments?

Earth’s top 2 meters (6 feet) of soil hold 2.5 trillion metric tons of carbon — more than is held in living vegetation and the atmosphere combined. But soil carbon sinks are under threat — global ...
AZOM

What Are the Best Materials for Carbon Capture and Sequestration?

Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) is one of the most effective approaches for reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions. By preventing CO 2 from being released into the atmosphere, CCS helps ...
The Gazette

Carbon dioxide sequestration in Iowa? Researchers hope to find out

Geologist Ryan Clark points out a map Friday of Iowa’s geology at the Iowa Geological Survey in Coralville. The Iowa Geological Survey, based at the University of Iowa, has received $11.3 million in ...
The Advocate

Could Louisiana's carbon capture 'gold rush' be derailed? Opposition emerges in unlikely areas.

Louisiana's emergence as a hotbed for new technology to store carbon emissions deep underground has long been opposed by environmentalists. But pushback from an unlikely source is now also gaining ...
Business Wire

Conestoga Energy Submits Class VI Carbon Capture & Sequestration Permit Application to EPA Region 7

LIBERAL, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Conestoga Energy (“Conestoga” or the “Company”), the leading provider of low carbon intensity biofuel, today announced the submission of its full Class VI permit ...