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A carbon sink is a natural or artificial reservoir that accumulates and stores some carbon-containing chemical compound for an indefinite period.

What are carbon sinks? | FERN
A carbon sink is anything that absorbs more carbon that it releases, whilst a carbon source is anything that releases more carbon than is absorb.

What is a Carbon Sink? | Life's Little Mysteries
Natural carbon storage systems may be blocked by global warming.

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Forests and other vegetation in the U.S. consume about a quarter of the carbon dioxide gas the country produces each year. Over the past few decades the size of this “carbon sink ...

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carbon sink ( ′kärbən ′siŋk ) ( geochemistry ) A reservoir that absorbs or takes up atmospheric carbon; for example, a forest or an

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