Sentence examples for carbon store from inspiring English sources

The Alberta tar sands are the world's third-largest known carbon store.

The plant acts as a carbon store, sequestering (absorbing) atmospheric CO2 for as long as the plant continues to exist.

But its purpose is similar: finding a route to get the vast carbon store of the Alberta tar sands to market.

As many of us know, our uplands are some of the most iconic landscapes, both for services they give people – such as water and as a carbon store – and for wildlife".

The experiment by the Scottish Association for Marine Science SAMSS), Plymouth Marine Lab, plus 8 other research institutes, will simulate what would happen if a pipeline to a carbon store leaked.

"Why is everyone thinking about forest and peat land while overlooking oceans, the biggest carbon store on the planet?" said Dan Lafolley, marine vice chairman for the World Commission on Protected Areas of the Swiss-based Inthenational Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Burning wood releases the carbon stored inside.

There is an estimated 1.4bn to 1.85bn tonnes of organic carbon stored in the Arctic permafrost – around half of all such carbon stored in Earth's soils.

So have 350GTC left, which is much less than the carbon stored in fossil fuel reserves.

Primary forests are the largest above-ground carbon stores in the world.

There are also fears that the carbon stored underground might escape.