How to Use carbon sequestration in a Sentence

carbon sequestration

noun
  • For humans, there’s a lot of research going on right now on the carbon sequestration potential of kelp forests.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The changes appeared to respond to concerns about the possible loss of canopy and shade, and could boost carbon sequestration.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • African elephants, for instance, are valued at more than $1 million for their role in carbon sequestration.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Practices like no-till and cover crops that build-up of total soil organic matter over time can lead to net carbon sequestration.
    — Steven Savage, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Their dung fertilized the ground, and their grazing promoted carbon sequestration in the soil.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 4 July 2024
  • That means carbon sequestration, not emissions.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
  • But even as the twilight zone and fish contributions to carbon sequestration start to come into focus, there are changes on the horizon.
    — WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
  • DeWitt County, half an hour north of Decatur, passed a carbon sequestration ban last year.
    — Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco / Grist, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The evidence for how living elephants affect carbon sequestration is also quite mixed.
    — Nitin Sekar, ArsTechnica, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Mulching lawn clippings enriches soil with nutrients and boosts carbon sequestration.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Trees absorb carbon from the atmosphere, offsetting the impacts of climate change, a process known as carbon sequestration.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Soil biodiversity, which plays a role in carbon sequestration, is also damaged by logging.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The cultivation of these grains thus plays a part in carbon sequestration, helping absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
    — Sixteen Ramos, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
  • There’s also the possibility of carbon sequestration by sinking the excessive biomass to the bottom of the ocean.
    — Stephanie Elam, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
  • But both nuclear energy and carbon sequestration are unpopular in many countries and have recently shown to be risky bets.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Aug. 2017
  • In addition, the movement helps counteract climate change by improving carbon sequestration in the soil.
    — Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
  • The increase of soil carbon sequestration (about 5 million tons of carbon) and the reduction in water use are other notable achievements.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 July 2024
  • This method demonstrates how mineralization can be a practical and scalable approach to long-term carbon sequestration.
    — Rob Van Straten, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • This will require farmers to change their practices on the field and ethanol plants to implement controversial technologies like carbon sequestration.
    — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
  • The results show that carbon sequestration is the more cost-efficient option for achieving carbon neutrality.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2023
  • Soil carbon sequestration, the main selling point of regenerative agriculture, ranked second to last.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
  • In future, this technology may also be used to assess the financial value of the forest elephants' carbon sequestration.
    — Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Oil and gas advocates have said local governments don’t have the necessary expertise of carbon sequestration to make these decisions.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The new carbon sequestration sector could mark a drastic transformation for fossil fuel companies and the communities that have built their economies around them.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2024
  • These types of methods help restore soil health, improve carbon sequestration and reduce reliance on synthetic fertilizers.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Effective carbon sequestration would require burying Azolla biomass or converting it into biochar for long-term storage.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The law also expanded a tax credit for what is known as direct carbon sequestration, the process of removing carbon from the air and storing it underground or turning it into new products.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • These activities would emit carbon, lowering the overall carbon sequestration potential by the time the nutrients hit the water.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Pitch grand plans, as other drillers have — maybe repurposing the wells for bitcoin mining, carbon sequestration or the synthesis of hydrogen fuel — that require the wells to remain open.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2024
  • That would encourage new peat accumulation and carbon sequestration.
    — Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026

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