Tag: Carbon Sequestration - Page 3
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How Much Carbon Can Organic Agriculture Sequester?
I may not have been a huge fan of the promo video for its organic farm school, but the UK's Soil Association has been a tireless advocate for sustainable, planet friendly farming for years. And in looking at everything
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Confirmed: Oceans Absorbing Less CO2 - First Year-by-Year Study Goes Back to 1765
The first year-by-year study of the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the world's oceans since the industrial revolution confirms a disturbing trend: Oceans are struggling to keep up with all the carbon humans are
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Mangroves & Coastal Wetlands Store 50 Times More Carbon Than Tropical Forests by Area
More and more research has been coming out recently on how much carbon is stored in different ecosystems. The latest is from an IUCN report (via Mongabay) which shows that coastal habitats store up to 50 times
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New Ocean Carbon Sink Blooms as Antarctic Ice Retreats Rapidly
There aren't too many good un-anticipated consequences when it comes to climate change, but here's one: Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have discovered that in areas of open water left exposed by rapid ice melting around
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Department of Energy Invests $151 Million in Tomorrow's Transformative Technologies
Money from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (aka The Stimulus) continues to find its ways through the governmental pipes and out into the world. The latest: The Department of Energy has announced that $151 million in
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Organic Farming Could Stop Global Climate Change
Organic soils such as those seen here could sequester 40% of global carbon emissions. Image source: Rodale Institute stock. Global Climate Change Chaos We've overshot sustainability. Three hundred fifty parts per million (350 ppm) is the recommended
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Trashing Tragedy of the Commons? Communities Found to Manage Forests Better Than Government
It's economic and environmental conventional wisdom that natural resources held in common tend to get over-exploited. But a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and
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World's Farms Have More Tree Cover Than Believed: World Agroforestry Centre
Agroforestry plot in Ethiopia. Photo: Trees for the Future via flickr. The World Agroforestry Centre has just released a new report showing that while farming and deforestation are often linked together -- particularly when talking about the
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Bangladesh Gets $19 Million from US & Germany for Reforestation Project
A couple weeks ago Bangladesh's environment minister outlined how the
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Carbon Gold Promote Strict Regulations With World's First Biochar Methodology
Today the world's first biochar methodology has been published for public consultation by the Voluntary Carbon Standard. This ground breaking paper has been submitted by the UK based biochar project developers Carbon Gold. They
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India to Spend $200 Million on Forest Conservation & Preservation - All For Carbon Storage
India may still maintain it will not accept binding emissions targets, but it's sure stepping up on solar power, and now on carbon storage through forest preservation. Reuters reports that India's environment minister
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On Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill, Aren't We Forgetting Something?
Constructing a new home is no simple task. Negotiating contractors, laborers, electricians, plumbers, landscapers, and designers is a massive effort in coordination. Working in concert makes attention to detail critical,
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Clean Coal Financials Daunting in the Short Term
We've consistently pointed out that there's really no such thing as clean coal, when you look at how the stuff is mined, the waste, and all the other emissions beyond greenhouse gases. Now, a new study coming out of
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Temperate Forests Beat Tropical for Capturing & Storing Carbon, New Research Shows
If you're a regular TreeHugger reader you probably know that tropical rainforests suck huge amounts of carbon out of that air,
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Ten Ideas to Save the World
If you have not yet drastically changed your lifestyle to combat global warming, you are probably in the "human ingenuity will save our butts" camp. Now you have a chance to see if the the best ideas that could save the world
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In Defense of the Cow: How Eating Meat Could Help Slow Climate Change
Should we be eating more beef in order to slow global warming? It sounds counterintuitive, but it may be so: Cattle could be part of the whole ecological equation to solving climate change and restoring healthy,
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There's No Such Thing as Local vs. Organic Food
Let's clear up one issue: There is no such thing as local vs. organic. When it comes to consumer choice, we should be buying local and organic, though for mostly different reasons.Why We Should Buy Local Local is
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Deconstructing Duke Energy's Clean Coal Lingo (Video)
It's been a little bit since we heard from the front lines of the clean coal wars, so this video clip seems appropriate. Produced by the folks over at CLEAN its a kind of deconstruction of the quasi-green sounding lingo used by the coal industry, in
