How to Use carbon sink in a Sentence

carbon sink

noun

• Mangroves, comprised of trees that grow in saline water, typically where rivers meet the sea, are biodiversity hotspots and act as huge carbon sinks, helping combat climate change.
  — Kamalpreet Singh, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2024
• In 2012, a U.N. study found that mangrove forests — a major carbon sink — have suffered greatly due to the development of shrimp and fish farming.
  — Frida Garza / Grist, Quartz, 17 June 2024
• Cutting down half a dozen or so trees would gain as much as 2,000 kWh a year, but come at a financial and climate expense, since trees are carbon sinks.
  — Tik Root, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024
• This shift has improved soil health, cut cropland erosion and advanced the ability of soil to act as a crucial carbon sink.
  — Magi Richani, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• So instead of acting like a carbon sink, weathering rocks could be a source of carbon dioxide.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
• Venus is the closest exoplanet Studying Venus could give scientists insights of what a world looks like when there are no carbon sinks left.
  — Regina G. Barber, NPR, 8 May 2024
• This could mean the large-scale collapse of a biome that has for 65 million years has served as the Earth’s carbon sink, absorbing billions of tons of carbon while largely weathering changes in climate.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• Losing a large portion of the Amazon could turn a key carbon sink into a source of emissions, as wildfires burn and plants and animals decompose, no longer able to survive.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Approximately 4 billion hectares of forest around the world act as a carbon sink which, over the past two decades, has annually absorbed a net 7.6 billion metric tons of CO2.
  — Alloysius Attah, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
• By contrast, bottom trawling endangers not just the future of local fish stocks, but the existence of one of Europe’s most important carbon sinks.
  — Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• Those species produce climate-warming methane and also require a huge amount of land to graze on, spurring further deforestation in crucial carbon sinks such as the Amazon.
  — Eve Andrews, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2023
• Experts fear that mining could negatively impact carbon sinks and ocean life, including still-unidentified species near the ocean floor.
  — Naomi Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
• Notable examples of natural carbon sinks include forests and ecosystems like peatlands.
  — Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• Losing such a major carbon sink will have devastating consequences for biodiversity and human well-being in Brazil and far beyond.
  — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2022
• But unfortunately, humans are headed in the opposite direction: The Amazon is now so degraded due to deforestation, parts of it are switching from being carbon sinks to carbon sources.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
• Environmentalists say deep-sea mining will disturb the world’s largest natural carbon sink, which absorbs one-third of carbon dioxide generated on land.
  — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Researchers believe that such biodiversity could also mean canopy soils are strong carbon sinks, a potentially critical piece missing from carbon budgets.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2023
• Accordingly, parts of the Amazon are transforming from carbon sinks into carbon sources, further exacerbating climate change.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
• It is expected to be fully operational in a couple of years, fostering reforestation and funding protection of Brazil’s forests and savannas, important carbon sinks, according to scientists.
  — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
• The elimination of these precious carbon sinks released titanic amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, unleashing an environmental catastrophe.
  — Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Additionally, responsible grazing keeps grasslands healthy, increasing biodiversity and providing a natural carbon sink, while reducing the risk of wildfires, Dr. Manzano says.
  — Michael Benanav, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024