How to Use carbon cycle in a Sentence

carbon cycle

noun

• The mission aims to track changes in biomass over time to learn more about the carbon cycle.
  — Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
• The big idea The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle.
  — Ken Buesseler, The Conversation, 21 May 2020
• These are just some of many exchanges in the carbon cycle.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2020
• The key is Earth’s carbon cycle, wherein carbon is exchanged among the land, water, and air.
  — Jordan Wilkerson, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2021
• However, new knowledge about the deep carbon cycle revealed by the DCO gives Hazen hope.
  — National Geographic, 24 Oct. 2019
• But there is also a deeper carbon cycle, one that plays out over hundreds of millions of years.
  — Raleigh McElvery, Science | AAAS, 22 Apr. 2021
• The reason it’s included here is that healthy ecosystems can mean a healthy carbon cycle.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
• Mann is also keen to focus on the impacts of a detrimental feedback on the carbon cycle.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020
• Carbon is the foundation for all of life on Earth, and the carbon cycle is the natural process of recycling carbon atoms.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Jan. 2022
• Some scientists argue that the Amazon forest, a crucial part of the global carbon cycle, is at the tipping point right now.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Mar. 2020
• The carbon cycle is the process in which carbon circulates in various forms through Nature.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
• Forest owners, state or private, are supposed to replace cut trees with new ones within two years to help balance the carbon cycle.
  — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• Scientists are still trying figure out how much carbon dioxide is soaked up by the land and the ocean in the planet’s natural carbon cycle.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 21 June 2018
• Scientists are just starting to unravel the role these ecosystems play in the global carbon cycle and climate change.
  — Todd Woody, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• What if the legislative cycle were as sensitive and responsive as the carbon cycle?
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• Each member filters so much water that, depending on the salps’ numbers, their fecal droppings might shift the ocean’s carbon cycle.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 8 June 2021
• In what scientists call the carbon cycle, plants are like carbon dioxide vacuum cleaners, sucking it out of the air and storing it in their tissues.
  — Dan Nosowitz, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2020
• Shrinking ice sheets shifted the carbon cycle in a way that raised atmospheric CO2, further warming the planet.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2018
• Unlike a decomposing bison, biochar pulls carbon out of the earth’s carbon cycle.
  — Jesse Bedayn, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• The water cycle, nitrogen cycle, the oxygen cycle, the carbon cycle—dust is feeding into all of these.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• In fact, the growth of new calcite-forming marine organisms in deep water may have been significant enough to change the planet's carbon cycle.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• Third, there remain a lot of unknowns—most especially regarding the ways in which the Earth’s climate system and carbon cycle will respond to heating in the coming years.
  — David Vetter, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• These scientists are all experts on forests, climate change, the carbon cycle and/or carbon removal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2021
• One day, a colleague asked Hayhoe to give a guest lecture in his geology class on the carbon cycle—the way carbon travels between water, Earth, and the atmosphere.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2021
• For Baker, the newfound ability to map these giants and study their role in the global carbon cycle is what makes this discovery so significant.
  — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2019
• Some of what’s important is invisible — the water cycle, the carbon cycle.
  — Don Stacom, Courant Community, 27 May 2018
• There are now major fluctuations in the carbon cycle never before seen.
  — Rebecca Kessler, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2011
• These are questions about the carbon cycle—the many interconnected processes by which carbon changes forms and moves throughout the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, land ecosystems, and even rocks.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2018
• For instance, if there are mass die-offs on the continent, and these corpses become encased in ice rather than sink into the ocean, the deaths could potentially affect the global carbon cycle and nutrient flow.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2024
• These microscopic marine algae play a major role in the global carbon cycle.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024