How to Use carbon sink in a Sentence

carbon sink

noun

• Forests are carbon sinks and air purifiers.
  — Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• The tundra has become a source of emissions, rather than a carbon sink, the authors said.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
• The farms have wreaked havoc on peatlands, one of the world’s most important carbon sinks.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2025
• The ocean is one of the world's largest carbon sinks, which allows carbon to be removed from the atmosphere.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
• Forests, the largest terrestrial carbon sinks in the world, are part of the solution.
  — Ryan Gellert, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
• So instead of acting like a carbon sink, weathering rocks could be a source of carbon dioxide.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Oct. 2023
• Africa holds vast carbon sinks but gets only a small share of global carbon market investment.
  — ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
• This shift has improved soil health, cut cropland erosion and advanced the ability of soil to act as a crucial carbon sink.
  — Magi Richani, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Wetlands also act as important carbon sinks.
  — Jon Sweetman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2022
• Yet as temperatures and fire risk both rise, that creates the risk that the forests go from being a carbon sink to a source of planet-warming emissions.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
• Boreal forests are dying off, potentially tipping from a net carbon sink into a net carbon source.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2019
• Among the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks, this high-seas patch of ocean covers an area the size of Switzerland.
  — Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Notable examples of natural carbon sinks include forests and ecosystems like peatlands.
  — Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• Experts fear that mining could negatively impact carbon sinks and ocean life, including still-unidentified species near the ocean floor.
  — Naomi Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
• That limits the capacity of one of Earth’s biggest carbon sinks and amplifies warming.
  — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Mar. 2026
• As climate change accelerates, our parks and greenways serve as carbon sinks, flood buffers, and cooling zones in our increasingly hot towns and cities.
  — Paul Steely White, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
• Venus is the closest exoplanet Studying Venus could give scientists insights of what a world looks like when there are no carbon sinks left.
  — Regina G. Barber, NPR, 8 May 2024
• Earth’s oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, providing a valuable carbon sink as humans burn fossil fuels.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
• Cutting down half a dozen or so trees would gain as much as 2,000 kWh a year, but come at a financial and climate expense, since trees are carbon sinks.
  — Tik Root, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024
• Losing a large portion of the Amazon could turn a key carbon sink into a source of emissions, as wildfires burn and plants and animals decompose, no longer able to survive.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
• By contrast, bottom trawling endangers not just the future of local fish stocks, but the existence of one of Europe’s most important carbon sinks.
  — Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• Mangroves, comprised of trees that grow in saline water, typically where rivers meet the sea, are biodiversity hotspots and act as huge carbon sinks, helping combat climate change.
  — Kamalpreet Singh, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2024
• However, a rapidly warming climate may be prohibiting the carbon sinks on land from performing effectively.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 21 Oct. 2024
• Yet the blue economy, especially industries like seabed and deep sea mining, can worsen the ocean's ability to act as a carbon sink and can worsen overall climate change.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
• Those species produce climate-warming methane and also require a huge amount of land to graze on, spurring further deforestation in crucial carbon sinks such as the Amazon.
  — Eve Andrews, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2023
• Even as Brazil slows deforestation, more than 13% of the Amazon is gone, pushing one of the planet’s largest carbon sinks closer to a tipping point.
  — Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Much like forests, phytoplankton is a natural carbon sink and crucial for producing atmospheric oxygen.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2024
• Founder Annabel Thomas has expressed concerns about the sustainability of peat use, highlighting its role as a carbon sink and biodiverse habitat.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
• But, peatland restoration is a long-term and imprecise solution that might take decades to properly assess, while existing peatlands are needed as a natural carbon sink now.
  — Toby Ann Halamka, JSTOR Daily, 6 Feb. 2025