Sentence examples for carbon stores from inspiring English sources

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

Many of the improvements at Hythe and at other leading carbon stores, are being replicated across the country.

Agri-environment funding helps farmers protect water supplies, carbon stores, wildlife and habitats while bringing European money into the British economy.

Despite the tens of billions of dollars involved, capital spending by the oil industry's big five is thought to pale next to some of the upstream budgets of state-controlled groups which now dominate the world's hydrocarbon carbon stores.

Destroying peat forests for palm oil is especially bad for the climate, as these semi-saturated soils are dense "carbon stores" which release colossal quantities of C02 when they are burnt to make way for palm oil.

These include, for instance, expanding carbon stores in soil through no-till agriculture, in which no plowing takes place and seeds are sown in the carbon-rich detritus of the previous year's harvest.

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.

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

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

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