Beyond Carbon Capture: Using Trees and Forests to Fight Climate Change

U.S. News & World Report— Climate change has taken up a permanent presence in our global discourse. The broad issue is complex, riddled with an assortment of challenges.Yet in the mainstream, the idea of climate change is regularly oversimplified, and the conversation around this multifaceted topic invariably circles back to one element: carbon.As the primary contributor to the greenhouse effect and our changing climate, it’s understandable why carbon – and its capture and removal – has become the central character in...

Tuoi Tre News Video—Battling climate change, Japan looks to seagrass for carbon capture. Japan, the world's fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, covers a surface area smaller than California but has some of the longest coastlines in the world

One Green Planet—Japan is Using Seagrass to Combat Climate Change and Achieve Carbon Neutrality. In Yokohama, Japan, a coastal city just south of Tokyo, over a hundred volunteers recently gathered to plant eelgrass in the seabed.

CBS News—Climate change experiment shows rising temperatures cause forests to release more carbon. The small ecosystem in Puerto Rico where the study was conducted illustrates the consequences for the climate as a whole.