Hey, good news! We already have enough soil to absorb 5.5 billion tonnes of CO2 every year but we have to make choices to protect it so it can help us out. If we just leave the dirt alone, it will do the work for us but the hard part is. . . leaving it alone.
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Trees are important in turning the tide on climate change but you can’t plant them everywhere. Specifically you are limited in what you can plant in an urban environment given all of the buildings and asphalts and what not. Enter City Trees, the towers of moss that want to clean the air up.
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We all know what a forest is even if we live in areas that don’t have much in the way of greenery. This could mean urban environments or straight up deserts or both. New innovation can bring jungles into even these areas with the Vertical Forest. Three new buildings are planned for Egypt.
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Carbon sinks are one of the methods people are hoping will really help offset emissions over the next few years. What if there was a way to supercharge them? That’s a possibility with biochar, an emission sucking wonder material.
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Planting trees is one of the things that have been pushed as to helping with climate change. That’s still on the table but the logistics of it all might be a little bit tricky. Specifically, where exactly are all of these trees going to be planted?
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You probably don’t think fungi are very important to climate change. They just eat dead things, right? Ignoring the fact that that is. . . important, it turns out that fungi also play a role in sequestering carbon in the soil and human meddling has endangered that.
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There’s a radical plan to slow down climate change from UN scientists. It’s going to cost $300 billion but it will buy the world 15-20 years to adapt climate neutral technologies. Is it some new technology? Some high priced program? Nope! The plan is simply turn the degraded land back into working soil and create carbon sinks.
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The ubiquitous London plane tree is going to start disappearing from Australian cities as the country makes a move to plant and encourage more species that are hardier to climate change. Although this is an isolated event, the replacing of trees we mean, more locations may find themselves doing the same.
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If you’ve been reading us for a any length of time then you’re aware of the plastic problem in the ocean. You’re also likely aware that the plastic that finds its way into the water can and does stick around for a long time. But it isn’t all old trash washing up on shore. Scientists have found fairly new waste on a remote island and that’s a sign that we need to do better.
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Blue carbon is the poetic name given to carbon that is captured by the vegetation of coastal areas around the world. Australia has a very large stake in this region and unfortunately, it’s releasing a lot of that carbon back into the air due to destruction.
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Carbon sinks are a great way to help offset emissions. One of the biggest that the UK has areas that are just waiting to sink that carbon but they need a little TLC. Bringing back wet pet bogs can help reduce carbon but it’s really expensive.
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Easy way to combat climate change: Plant trees. That’s it. They act as carbon sinks, provide oxygen and are all around good guys. Adding more trees can have a positive outcome for our planet and although the coverage would vary from region to region, every area of the world could do with more.
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Most people who are about that sustainable life know by now that their plain grass lawns aren’t exactly the best environmental choice but now you’ve got one more reason to change your grass into an actual garden: carbon sinks. Build your own carbon capturing powerhouse and maybe get some flowers or veggies out of the effort.
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