A carbon sink is a natural or artificial carbon sequestration process that "removes a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere". These sinks form an important
This diagram of the fast carbon cycle shows the movement of carbon between land, atmosphere, soil and oceans in billions of tons of carbon per year. Yellow numbers are natural fluxes, red are human contributions in billions of tons of carbon per year. White numbers indicate stored carbon.
Mjøstårnet, one of the tallest timber buildings, at its opening 2019
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CO2. It is made up of molecules that each have one carbon atom covalently double bonded to two oxygen atoms. It is found in a gas state
Carbon sink
…farming, residue mulching, cover cropping, and crop rotation. Forests are an important part of the global carbon cycle because trees and plants absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. Therefore, they play an important role in climate change mitigation. By removing the greenhouse gas CO2 from the air, forests…
Pellets of "dry ice", a common form of solid carbon dioxide
Rising levels of CO2 threatened the Apollo 13 astronauts, who had to adapt cartridges from the command module to supply the carbon dioxide scrubber in the Apollo Lunar Module, which they used as a lifeboat.
A carbon dioxide sensor that measures CO2 concentration using a nondispersive infrared sensor
Pterapod shell dissolved in seawater adjusted to an ocean chemistry projected for the year 2100