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Negative emissions: Links for June 2019

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Natural sources and sinks: The science of sequestration

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Anthropocene   Q: What’s missing from forest carbon accounting? A: Animals

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BBC   How weeds help fight climate change 

 

Carbon Brief   Climate change is driving plankton towards the poles, study says

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Climate Home News   Bolsonaro’s plan to unlock the Amazon: split its indigenous peoples

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Daily Mail [UK]   Microplastics are causing global warming because they are making the poo of jellyfish-like animals that soak up carbon dioxide float rather than sink

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E&E News   Cow manure: An unexpected climate solution

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EOS   Farm Ponds Sequester Greenhouse Gases

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Guardian   Rewild a quarter of UK to fight climate crisis, campaigners urge

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Independent   Arctic kelp forests: Expanding thanks to climate change

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Iowa Public Radio   Climate Change Is Hurting Forests' Ability To Filter Agricultural Nitrate Pollution

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Mongabay   Indian forests may be able to withstand climate change better than feared

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Mongabay   Plants are working hard to keep pace with increasing carbon dioxide

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Narwhal   Canada’s forests haven’t absorbed more carbon than they’ve released since 2001

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National Geographic   Meet the Indigenous Leaders Who Are Lighting a Fire on Climate Change: A 3-D Journey Through the Australian Bush

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PhysOrg   Climate change is giving old trees a growth spurt

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Reuters   Brazil's mangroves on the front line of climate change

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Telegraph [UK]   Scientists build first global map of 'wood wide web' to highlight impact climate change will have on trees

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Thomson Reuters/Place   World's forests 'in emergency room' after years of losses

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Times [UK]   Ethiopia will plant 4bn trees to fight deforestation

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Yale   Global Warming Is Fueling Growth Spurts in Some of China’s Oldest Trees

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Yale   How vanishing lizards in Madagascar led to a troubling discovery about deforestation and climate change

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Yale   How vanishing lizards in Madagascar led to a troubling discovery about deforestation and climate change

 

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Sources and sinks: Academic articles

 

Cell   Robust Response of Terrestrial Plants to Rising CO2

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Global Change Biology   Accumulation of soil carbon under elevated CO2 unaffected by warming and drought

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Global Change Biology   Big‐sized trees overrule remaining trees’ attributes and species richness as determinants of aboveground biomass in tropical forests

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Global Change Biology   CO2 emissions from an undrained tropical peatland: Interacting influences of temperature, shading and water table depth

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Global Change Biology   The response of cyanobacteria and phytoplankton abundance to warming, extreme rainfall events and nutrient enrichment

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Nature   14C evidence that millennial and fast-cycling soil carbon are equally sensitive to warming

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Science   Global pattern of phytoplankton diversity driven by temperature and environmental variability

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Wiley/AGU100/Earth’s Future   Frequent interactions of Tibet's CO2 emissions with those of other regions in China

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Wiley/AGU100/Geophysical Research Letters   Severe long‐lasting drought accelerated carbon depletion in the Mongolian Plateau

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Wiley/AGU100?Earth’s Future   Why Does Amazon Precipitation Decrease When Tropical Forests Respond to Increasing CO2?

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   Biochar application as a tool to decrease soil nitrogen losses (NH3 volatilization, N2O emissions, and N leaching) from croplands: Options and mitigation strength in a global perspective

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   Carbon budgets of wetland ecosystems in China

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   Effects of 21st century climate, land use, and disturbances on ecosystem carbon balance in California

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   Multifunctionality debt in global drylands linked to past biome and climate

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   Natural carbon solutions are not large or fast enough

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   Overestimation of China's marshland CH4 release

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   Radiative forcing of methane fluxes offsets net carbon dioxide uptake for a tropical flooded forest

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   Regime shifts of Mediterranean forest carbon uptake and reduced resilience driven by multidecadal ocean surface temperatures

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   The climate sensitivity of carbon, timber, and species richness covaries with forest age in boreal–temperate North America

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   Warming impacts on boreal fen CO2 exchange under wet and dry conditions

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Wiley/Global Change Biology   We need both natural and energy solutions to stabilize our climate

Photo Attributions

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Negative emissions: Photo by: USDA NRCS South Dakota

Natural Sources and Sinks: Photo by: Daniela 

Negative emissions technologies: Photo by: Tengrrl 

Geo-engineering: Photo by: Beth Scupham

Academic articles: Photo by: National Park Service

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