• Land

For Peat’s Sake: Protecting Scotland’s Bogs

• #30x30
• 30 by 30
• carbon sequestration
• peat bogs
• peatland
• Scotland

by Ashira Morris, ODP Contributing Writer Scotland’s Flow Country could soon be home to the globe’s first peat bog protected as a world heritage site. The blanket bog covers over 1,500 square miles stretching across the northern tip of Scotland. Peatlands like the ones in Flow Country are one of the most efficient carbon trappers […]

• Climate Change

Louisiana Governor Sets Net-Zero Goal, Will Focus on Wetland Restoration

• carbon capture
• carbon sequestration
• climate change
• Louisiana
• wetlands

Yesterday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed two executive orders to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as well as a measure to ramp up coastal restoration as a means of carbon sequestration. As KALB explained, The first order, which deals with greenhouse gas emissions, creates the state’s first Climate Initiatives Task Force–a group […]

• Sustainability

New Report Finds Protecting 30% of US By 2030 Provides Major Carbon Offsets

• #30x30
• carbon offsets
• carbon sequestration
• carbon sink
• climate change
• nature based solutions

New research by the Center for American Progress (CAP) takes this analysis the next step and calculates the carbon sequestration benefits of various nature-based solutions being contemplated as part of the effort to conserve 30% of the U.S. lands and waters by 2030.  Forests and other lands in the United States, if properly conserved, have the potential to store an additional 1,000 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually.  

Why This Matters:  We need to use our full arsenal of tools to sequester carbon.

• Climate Change

The Magic of Mushrooms in Fighting Climate Change

• carbon sequestration
• climate change
• mushrooms

This year there’s been lots of talk about whether forests are the key to fighting climate change. And while forests are critical, mushrooms are the unsung heroes that are key in helping forests store their carbon. Thanks to fungi there’s twice as much carbon locked in the ground as in the atmosphere. But now, researchers […]

• Land

Midwestern States Struggling to Recover From Floods, Left Vulnerable to Coronavirus

• #COVID19
• carbon farming
• carbon sequestration
• coronavirus
• dairy farmers
• farmers
• regenerative farming

by Zoey Shipley and Miro Korenha    In Spring 2019, much of the Midwest was hit with devastating floods. Nebraska alone was faced with over $1 billion in damages to roads, local businesses, crops, and levees. Natural disasters like this have contributed to the crumbling of the rural economy and lack of investment in these […]

• Forests

Tropical Rainforests Losing Ability to Absorb Carbon, That’s a Blow to Trump’s “1 Trillion Trees”

• 1 trillion trees
• carbon sequestration
• rainforest
• Trumo

According to a new study published in the journal Nature, tropical forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the air and serve as “carbon sinks.” As The Guardian explained, The Amazon could turn into a source of carbon in the atmosphere, instead of one of the biggest absorbers of the gas, as […]