Aug 2019 Negative Emissions

Negative emissions: Links for August 2019

Air Carbon Capture: How scaleable is it?

Direct CO2 capture machines could use ‘a quarter of global energy’ in 2100

Solar Foods is making edible protein from captured CO2

The story behind the world’s first large direct air capture plant — Quartz

Geo-engineering: Unlatching

Pandora’s box

Algorithm Spots Climate-Altering Ship Tracks in Satellite Data - Eos

Betting on speculative geoengineering may risk an escalating ‘climate debt crisis’

Can trillion-tonne snow cannons save us from sea-level rise? | AFP.com

Geoengineering is very controversial. How can you do experiments? Harvard has some ideas. - MIT Technology Review

Impact of Solar Radiation Modification on Allowable CO2 Emissions: What Can We Learn From Multimodel Simulations? - Plazzotta - 2019 - Earth's Future - Wiley Online Library

Learning from the Climate Change Debate to Avoid Polarisation on Negative Emissions: Environmental Communication: Vol 0, No 0

Manmade Antarctic snowstorm 'could save coastal cities from rising seas' | Environment | The Guardian

Stabilizing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by surface mass deposition | Science Advances

The five: genetic fixes for the climate crisis | Technology | The Guardian

The Response of Permafrost and High‐Latitude Ecosystems Under Large‐Scale Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Its Termination - Lee - 2019 - Earth's Future - Wiley Online Library

Sources and sinks: Vegetation

‘Dangerous’ new regulation puts Indonesia’s carbon-rich peatlands at risk

Brazil deforestation soars in July, threatening EU trade deal - Reuters

Canada’s forgotten rainforest | The Narwhal

Charred forests not growing back as expected in Pacific Northwest, researchers say | CBC News

Cloning giant redwoods could help combat climate change

Congo Rain Forest Endures a Longer Dry Season - Eos

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest hits nearly three football fields per minute: report | TheHill

Ecologists are racing to restore the world's tropical rainforests — Quartz Africa

Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data - Requena Suarez - - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

Ethiopia plants 350m trees in a day to help tackle climate crisis | World news | The Guardian

'Football pitch' of Amazon forest lost every minute - BBC News

How Genetically-modified trees could help save the planet from global warming

Improved estimates of forest cover and loss in the Brazilian Amazon in 2000–2017 | Nature Sustainability

Increased microbial growth, biomass and turnover drive soil organic carbon accumulation at higher plant diversity - Prommer - - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

Largely underestimated carbon emission from land use and land cover change in the conterminous US - Yu - - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

Phytoplankton decline in the eastern North Pacific transition zone associated with atmospheric blocking - Le - - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

'Restore UK bogs' to tackle climate change - BBC News

Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics | Nature Plants

Snowmelt and early to mid‐growing season water availability augment tree growth during rapid warming in southern Asian boreal forests - Zhang - - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

The global tree restoration potential | Science

The wrong kind of trees: Ireland's afforestation meets resistance | World news | The Guardian

Thousands of Fires in Africa Continue To Burn Bright | NASA

We Can't Let Protecting Forests Be Climate Change's Forgotten Solution

We must not barter the Amazon rainforest for burgers and steaks | Jonathan Watts | Environment | The Guardian

Sources and sinks: Agriculture

Anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment enhances soil carbon accumulation by impacting saprotrophs rather than ectomycorrhizal fungal activity - Maaroufi - - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

Deep soil inventories reveal that impacts of cover crops and compost on soil carbon sequestration differ in surface and sub‐surface soils - Tautges - - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

Sources and sinks: Oceans and more

5 Questions About Agricultural Emissions, Answered | World Resources Institute

Humans May Be Accidentally Geoengineering the Oceans - Scientific American

Increasing microbial carbon use efficiency with warming predicts soil heterotrophic respiration globally - Ye - - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

Maximum carbon uptake rate dominates the interannual variability of global net ecosystem exchange - Fu - - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library

Photo Attributions

Negative emissions: Photo by: USDA NRCS South Dakota

Geo-engineering: Photo by: Beth Scupham

Oceans and more: Photo by: Amy Meredith

Vegetation: Photo by: Mike Goren

Agriculture: Photo by: flöschen

Air Carbon Capture: Photo by: Gabriel White

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