Carbon Sequestration

The ocean is remarkable. It covers 71% of the world, and it’s taken in approximately 25% of all the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities. But the ocean is in decline. Human activities are slowly killing its essential components, such as mangroves and oysters. Mangroves can store up to five…

By: Brendan Malone and Akshay Sundaram As we all know, the far-reaching impacts of climate change are affecting ecosystems and human life on a global scale. …

Soil is full of air. Somehow, I never realized that, but holding a handful, it is obvious. It’s springtime for “avant gardeners”, and I can’t help digging my fingers into the earth, and checking around to see what is poking up from the ground. The earth in my planting beds…

Scientists from University of California at Berkeley, have discovered an exciting and innovative way to fight climate change by using something as simple as salt to enhance carbon storage and reduce CO2 emissions. This method involves adding salt to both marine sediments and specially designed landfills called “engineered biolandfills.” In…

Yesterday I heard an environmental enthusiast on the radio explaining that clams and oysters sequester carbon, so we should feel very good about raising and eating them! Well, let’s pretend we don’t understand that their carbon doesn’t remain sequestered unless we collect all the carbon subsequently emitted (in one form…

Underwater solutions to mitigate the impact of climate change. Tapping the carbon sequestration potential of Kelp forests. The article was originally published on WeNaturalists, as a part of the curated section by the editorial team. For similar stories, head to our Explore section. Whenever we talk about efforts to bring…

The carbon sequestration market has been heating up lately (no pun intended). As we grapple with a warming planet and the possibility of not reaching our 2050 net-zero carbon goals, it’s becoming clearer that we need to take additional steps beyond reducing carbon emissions to keep temperatures from rising above…

Access to the Voluntary Carbon Market The voluntary carbon market is a thriving multi-billion dollar industry and is a major opportunity for anyone that has the chance to participate in it. The increasingly stricter government policies are prompting more businesses to become carbon neutral. As a consequence, the demand for carbon compensation is growing constantly. It…

A commonly known reality is that incentives go a long way toward inspiring people to take action, regardless of where they fall on the moral spectrum. What if, with the help of technology, it is now possible to design a system that both incentivizes and assigns a relative value to…