Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to ...

The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.

Colorado's forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees -- mostly due to insects and disease -- have caused the state's forests to emit more carbon than they absorbed in recent years, ...

Startup Chestnut Carbon has raised $160 million to plant, restore and manage trees on degraded farmland, generating carbon credits for customers that include Microsoft Corp.  The company's goal: ...

According to data reviewed and analyzed by Colorado State University researchers, Colorado's forest as a collective is now ...

Frank Sima, an ACA forestry officer, noted that a single jacaranda tree costs up to 2,500/-, and is globally recognized for its ability to reduce carbon dioxide in the air. Shaheed Dhanani, the Comex ...

D espite accounting for around 0.025 percent of all mass on the planet, carbon is vital for life on Earth. This element, ...

The center of a tree or shrub stem (from roots to trunk, branches, and twigs) is woody, composed of xylem cells that conduct water from the roots to the upper parts of the tree. That woody section is ...

As forests become increasingly degraded, they lose their functional characteristics, as soft-wood, fast-growing trees have less ability to store carbon, are less resistant to fire and drought ...

They have pumped carbon dioxide (CO2) around the mature oak trees here in order to simulate the atmosphere that is expected to swathe planet Earth by the year 2050. This small wooded area ...