Forests (and all growing vegetation) removes carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, releases the oxygen and stores the carbon in its roots, trunk and branches. Forests are a great carbon sink saving the world from global warming. If only we hadn't cut down so many of them!
Forests (and all vegetation) remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This reduces the effects of the enhanced greenhouse effect, slowing the rising temperatures of global warming.
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The carbon cycle removes carbon from the atmosphere, but only temporarily.Photosynthesis, when plants grow, is the only way to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere. So we need to plant more forests.
The tiny Himalayan country of Bhutan. Its forests remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than its people emit.
Animals remove oxygen from the atmosphere.
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere capture heat. We are continuing to add extra greenhouse gases (by burning fossil fuels) and this is causing the warming. The great forests that used to remove carbon dioxide (one of the greenhouse gases) from the atmosphere have been destroyed.
Forests (and all vegetation) remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This reduces the effects of the enhanced greenhouse effect, slowing the rising temperatures of global warming.
Yes, cutting down forests (deforestation) means the trees can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. To combat this we have to replant the forests (reforestation) to reduce levels of greenhouse gases.
Carbon Cycle.
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Trees and other growing vegetation are the only things that seriously remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Unfortunately, the world is still cutting down its great forests.
The carbon cycle
The carbon cycle removes carbon from the atmosphere, but only temporarily.Photosynthesis, when plants grow, is the only way to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere. So we need to plant more forests.
A carbon source releases carbon into the atmosphere, like burning fossil fuels. A carbon sink absorbs carbon from the atmosphere, like forests or oceans. Sources add carbon, sinks remove it, helping maintain a balance in the environment.
Forests remove carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. This reduces the threat of a accelerated greenhouse effect. In the forest the trees also gives us oxygen and they are good for your health.
The tiny Himalayan country of Bhutan. Its forests remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than its people emit.
It can't. Global warming is caused by the increasing amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and there is no way the extra heat will remove this CO2. The only thing that removes carbon permanently from the air is photosynthesis in forests, trees and other vegetation.