Climate impacts in northern forests
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
Carbon Sinks
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The importance of forest structure for carbon fluxes of the Amazon rainforest
<p>Precise descriptions of forest productivity, biomass, and structure are essential for understanding ecosystem responses to climatic and anthropogenic changes. However, relations between these components
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Continental drivers of ammonium and nitrate in Australian soil under different land uses
<p>Soil N is an essential element for plant growth, but its mineral forms are subject to loss to the environment by leaching and gaseous emissions. Despite its importance for the soil-plant system, factors
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Convergent evidence for widespread rock nitrogen sources in Earth’s surface environment
Nitrogen availability is a pivotal control on terrestrial carbon sequestration and global climate change. Historical and contemporary views assume that nitrogen enters Earth’s land-surface ecosystems from
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Trump Forest’ hits a million trees in bid to curb climate change
Donors are paying to plant a million trees as part of a drive to counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to walk away from a global pact to curb climate change. The “Trump Forest” - dubbed by
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India State of Forest Report 2017
<p>Between 2003 and 2016, the forest fires have jumped by almost 38% from 24,450 to 33,664 shows the State of Forests report 2017 released by the environment ministry.</p>
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Carbon pricing could save millions of hectares of tropical forest: new study
Recently published research in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that setting a price of $20 per metric ton (about $18/short ton) of carbon dioxide could diminish deforestation by nearly
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For carbon sink target, India looks at catchment area plan
A carbon sink is a system that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Having committed a target of creating an additional carbon sink the equivalent of 2.5 billion to 3 billion tonnes carbon dioxide
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Carbon Sink, 22/12/2017
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Carbon Sink, 22/12/2017. India submitted its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) under Paris Agreement to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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Indigenous forests could be a key to averting climate catastrophe
A new study finds the world’s tropical forests may no longer be carbon sinks, with a net loss of 425 million tons of carbon from 2003 to 2014. Also, 1.1 billion metric tons of carbon is emitted globally
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Cutting down emission intensity of GDP to fight climate change: India
The First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to UN, Ashish Sinha said India has considered tapping non-fossil fuel energy sources and creating additional carbon sink India on Tuesday said