How to Use carbon cycle in a Sentence

carbon cycle

noun

• The mission aims to track changes in biomass over time to learn more about the carbon cycle.
  — Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
• The big idea The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle.
  — Ken Buesseler, The Conversation, 21 May 2020
• This is the biggest methane sink, or source of loss, in Earth’s carbon cycle.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
• And as the carbon cycle speeds up, methanogens have more carbon to feed on and release even more methane.
  — Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
• But there is also a deeper carbon cycle, one that plays out over hundreds of millions of years.
  — Raleigh McElvery, Science | AAAS, 22 Apr. 2021
• The reason it’s included here is that healthy ecosystems can mean a healthy carbon cycle.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
• This part of the carbon cycle acts like a natural thermostat.
  — Morgan Underwood, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
• This part of the carbon cycle has helped Earth recover from past ice ages and avoid runaway warming.
  — Morgan Underwood, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
• Mann is also keen to focus on the impacts of a detrimental feedback on the carbon cycle.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020
• The key is Earth’s carbon cycle, wherein carbon is exchanged among the land, water, and air.
  — Jordan Wilkerson, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2021
• Methane, as a carbon-containing compound, is part of the carbon cycle.
  — Marlowe Starling, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2025
• Even the carbon cycle could be affected, as there will be fewer tiny life forms absorbing carbon dioxide.
  — Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
• Unlike a decomposing bison, biochar pulls carbon out of the earth’s carbon cycle.
  — Jesse Bedayn, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• There are now major fluctuations in the carbon cycle never before seen.
  — Rebecca Kessler, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2011
• And this could affect climate and carbon cycle science in significant ways.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022
• These scientists are all experts on forests, climate change, the carbon cycle and/or carbon removal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2021
• The carbon cycle is the process in which carbon circulates in various forms through Nature.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2019
• What if the legislative cycle were as sensitive and responsive as the carbon cycle?
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• Scientists are just starting to unravel the role these ecosystems play in the global carbon cycle and climate change.
  — Todd Woody, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• These microscopic marine algae play a major role in the global carbon cycle.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
• The land turns from a carbon sink into a carbon source, further unbalancing our planet’s carbon cycle.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• This year’s report includes a detailed accounting of how the carbon cycle is changing in the Arctic.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
• Each member filters so much water that, depending on the salps’ numbers, their fecal droppings might shift the ocean’s carbon cycle.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 8 June 2021
• Scientists are still trying figure out how much carbon dioxide is soaked up by the land and the ocean in the planet’s natural carbon cycle.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 21 June 2018
• Photos of signs that reference carbon cycles and the global impact of climate change were submitted.
  — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
• Carbon is the foundation for all of life on Earth, and the carbon cycle is the natural process of recycling carbon atoms.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Jan. 2022
• Some scientists argue that the Amazon forest, a crucial part of the global carbon cycle, is at the tipping point right now.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Mar. 2020
• The water cycle, nitrogen cycle, the oxygen cycle, the carbon cycle—dust is feeding into all of these.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• Some of what’s important is invisible — the water cycle, the carbon cycle.
  — Don Stacom, Courant Community, 27 May 2018
• In November, the second event will offer a window into how deep-sea fish help regulate the earth’s carbon cycle.
  — Diana Udel, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025