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Natural climate solutions Open
Significance Most nations recently agreed to hold global average temperature rise to well below 2 °C. We examine how much climate mitigation nature can contribute to this goal with a comprehensive analysis of “natural climate solutions” (N…
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Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects Open
The most recent IPCC assessment has shown an important role for negative emissions technologies (NETs) in limiting global warming to 2 °C cost-effectively. However, a bottom-up, systematic, reproducible, and transparent literature assessme…
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Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use Open
Significance Land use and land cover change has resulted in substantial losses of carbon from soils globally, but credible estimates of how much soil carbon has been lost have been difficult to generate. Using a data-driven statistical mod…
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Rapid carbon mineralization for permanent disposal of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions Open
Inject, baby, inject! Atmospheric CO 2 can be sequestered by injecting it into basaltic rocks, providing a potentially valuable way to undo some of the damage done by fossil fuel burning. Matter et al. injected CO 2 into wells in Iceland t…
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Carbon pools in China’s terrestrial ecosystems: New estimates based on an intensive field survey Open
Significance Previous estimations of carbon budgets in China’s terrestrial ecosystems varied greatly because of the multiplicity of data sources and the inconsistency of methodologies. By conducting a methodologically consistent field camp…
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Insight into Multiple and Multilevel Structures of Biochars and Their Potential Environmental Applications: A Critical Review Open
Biochar is the carbon-rich product of the pyrolysis of biomass under oxygen-limited conditions, and it has received increasing attention due to its multiple functions in the fields of climate change mitigation, sustainable agriculture, env…
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Effects of national ecological restoration projects on carbon sequestration in China from 2001 to 2010 Open
Significance China has launched six key ecological restoration projects since the late 1970s, but the contribution of these projects to terrestrial C sequestration remains unknown. In this study we examined the ecosystem C sink in the proj…
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Soil health and carbon management Open
Soil, a natural four‐dimensional body at the atmosphere–lithosphere interface, is organic‐carbon‐mediated realm in which solid, liquid, and gaseous phases interact at a range of scales and generate numerous ecosystem goods and services. So…
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How biochar works, and when it doesn't: A review of mechanisms controlling soil and plant responses to biochar Open
We synthesized 20 years of research to explain the interrelated processes that determine soil and plant responses to biochar. The properties of biochar and its effects within agricultural ecosystems largely depend on feedstock and pyrolysi…
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How green is blue hydrogen? Open
Hydrogen is often viewed as an important energy carrier in a future decarbonized world. Currently, most hydrogen is produced by steam reforming of methane in natural gas (“gray hydrogen”), with high carbon dioxide emissions. Increasingly, …
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Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) using CO2 as working fluid - Anovelapproach for generating renewable energy with simultaneoussequestration of carbon Open
Responding to the need to reduce atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide, Donald Brown (2000) proposed a novel enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) concept that would use CO{sub 2} instead of water as heat transmission fluid, and would achiev…
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Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics Open
Models reveal the high carbon mitigation potential of tropical forest regeneration.
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Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage Open
Significance Soil carbon sequestration plays an important role in mitigating anthropogenic increases in atmospheric CO 2 concentrations. Recent studies have shown that biodiversity increases soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in experimenta…
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How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal Open
There is growing international interest in better managing soils to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) content to contribute to climate change mitigation, to enhance resilience to climate change and to underpin food security, through initi…
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Carbon Capture and Utilization Update Open
In recent years, carbon capture and utilization (CCU) has been proposed as a potential technological solution to the problems of greenhouse‐gas emissions and the ever‐growing energy demand. To combat climate change and ocean acidification …
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Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits Open
Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives, many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly compensate for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, which are a major cause…
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The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches Open
Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery across different restoration approaches. Through global …
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A review of CO2 storage in geological formations emphasizing modeling, monitoring and capacity estimation approaches Open
The merits of CO2 capture and storage to the environmental stability of our world should not be underestimated as emissions of greenhouse gases cause serious problems. It represents the only technology that might rid our atmosphere of the …
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Assessing ocean alkalinity for carbon sequestration Open
Over the coming century humanity may need to find reservoirs to store several trillions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emitted from fossil fuel combustion, which would otherwise cause dangerous climate change if it were left in the atmo…
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Carbon storage in US wetlands Open
Wetland soils contain some of the highest stores of soil carbon in the biosphere. However, there is little understanding of the quantity and distribution of carbon stored in our remaining wetlands or of the potential effects of human distu…
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An Overview of the Status and Challenges of CO2 Storage in Minerals and Geological Formations Open
Since the Industrial Revolution, anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have grown exponentially, accumulating in the atmosphere and leading to global warming. According to the IPCC (IPCC Special Report 2018), atmospheric warming sho…
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Comparative assessment of blue hydrogen from steam methane reforming, autothermal reforming, and natural gas decomposition technologies for natural gas-producing regions Open
Interest in blue hydrogen production technologies is growing. Some researchers have evaluated the environmental and/or economic feasibility of producing blue hydrogen, but a holistic assessment is still needed. Many aspects of hydrogen pro…
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Soil carbon sequestration accelerated by restoration of grassland biodiversity Open
Agriculturally degraded and abandoned lands can remove atmospheric CO 2 and sequester it as soil organic matter during natural succession. However, this process may be slow, requiring a century or longer to re-attain pre-agricultural soil …
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Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration Open
Land use policies have turned southern China into one of the most intensively managed forest regions in the world, with actions maximizing forest cover on soils with marginal agricultural potential while concurrently increasing livelihoods…
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Life cycle environmental and economic performance of biochar compared with activated carbon: A meta-analysis Open
As the commercial production and distribution of biochar continues to grow internationally, and its applications diversifying from its early uses as soil amendment, it is important to study the environmental impacts and economic performanc…
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Trade‐offs between soil carbon sequestration and reactive nitrogen losses under straw return in global agroecosystems Open
It is widely recommended that crop straw be returned to croplands to maintain or increase soil carbon (C) storage in arable soils. However, because C and nitrogen (N) biogeochemical cycles are closely coupled, straw return may also affect …
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Dimensions of Blue Carbon and emerging perspectives Open
Blue Carbon is a term coined in 2009 to draw attention to the degradation of marine and coastal ecosystems and the need to conserve and restore them to mitigate climate change and for the other ecosystem services they provide. Blue Carbon …
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Responses of soil carbon sequestration to climate‐smart agriculture practices: A meta‐analysis Open
Climate‐smart agriculture (CSA) management practices (e.g., conservation tillage, cover crops, and biochar applications) have been widely adopted to enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions whi…
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Biologically-mediated carbon capture and utilization by microalgae towards sustainable CO2 biofixation and biomass valorization – A review Open
The continuously rising emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a universal hazard which urgently requires collaborative action between policymakers and scientists. International treaties such as the Paris Agreement (with 196 signatories) refl…
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Biochar and Its Broad Impacts in Soil Quality and Fertility, Nutrient Leaching and Crop Productivity: A Review Open
Biochar is gaining significant attention due to its potential for carbon (C) sequestration, improvement of soil health, fertility enhancement, and crop productivity and quality. In this review, we discuss the most common available techniqu…