Earth's natural carbon sinks weaken

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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?

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In 2023 , the hottest year ever recorded, the amount of carbon absorbed by land has temporarily collapsed.

The Earth 's oceans, forests, soils and other natural carbon sinks absorb about half of all human emissions.

Greenland ’s glaciers and Arctic ice sheets are melting faster than expected, disrupting the Gulf Stream ocean current and slowing the rate at which oceans absorb carbon.

Hot conditions in the northern forests helped drive the collapse of the land sink in 2023 causing a spike in the rate of atmospheric carbon.

The oceans nature’s largest absorber of CO2 have soaked up 90% of the warming from fossil fuels in recent decades .

Studies have also found signs that this is weakening the ocean carbon sink.

The real challenge is protecting the carbon sinks and stores we already have by halting deforestation, cutting emissions and ensuring they are as healthy as possible.

We shouldn’t rely on natural forests to do the job. We really, really have to tackle the big issue: fossil fuel emissions across all sectors,’ says Prof Pierre Friedlingstein of Exeter University.

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