carbon sink 碳匯 （碳吸儲）

carbon sink
繁：碳匯 （碳吸儲）
简：碳汇 （碳吸储）

亞馬遜森林一直被視為可吸收大氣溫室氣體排放的「碳匯 (或譯碳吸儲) 」，並可以此緩減氣候變化。然而，最近刊於《自然》的研究發現，近年森林二氧化碳排放量已超越其吸收量，反而加速氣候變化。研究人員指，亞馬遜森林失去其吸收二氧化碳的能力，是減少使用化石燃料的重要警號。

研究﹕亞馬遜森林碳排放反超碳吸收　加速氣候變化（2021年7月15日）。立場新聞，取自 https://www.thestandnews.com/nature/yingauahmashun

The main reasons for the reversal in the Amazon’s role as a major carbon sink include continued deforestation and unrelenting climate change, according to the scientists who conducted nearly 600 vertical profiling measurements by help of small airplanes some 4,500 meters above th e forest to monitor concentrations of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide at four sites between 2010 and 2018.

The Amazon is no longer a carbon sink. It’s a ‘carbon source’. (2021, Jul 15). Sustainability Times. Retrieved from https://www.sustainability-times.com/environmental-protection/the-amazon-is-no-longer-a-carbon-sink-its-a-carbon-source/