Carbon sink

A carbon sink is a natural or artificial carbon sequestration process that "removes a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere". These sinks form an important part of the natural carbon cycle. An overarching term is carbon pool, which is all the places where carbon on Earth can be, i.

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the atmosphere, oceans, soil, florae, fossil fuel reservoirs and so forth.
A carbon sink is a type of carbon pool that has the capability to take up more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases.

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