In Photos: Carbon Sinks Across the World

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View of the Pantanal from the Cidade de Pedra viewpoint in the Chapada dos Guimaraes national park, Mato Grosso state, western Brazil on January 30, 2011.

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In this photograph taken on October 16, 2010 during an aerial survey mission by Greenpeace over Sumatra island shows a rainforest canopy of Sungai Sembilang National Park.

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PlanetSolar achieves the first around the world with only solar energy, on May 4, 2012 in Monaco. The biggest solar boat ever built progressed through Atlantic Sea, Panama canal, Pacific Ocean and is back to Mediterranean Sea through Suez Canal.

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Picture taken on December 2, 2010 shows a flock of Great Cromonent birds flying over to Rapati River in Chitwan National Park, some 200 km southwest of Kathmandu.

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A great white cloud reflected on a pond at the hotel Princeville Resort in Kauai (Hawaii).

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The Dyes Slaughterhouse, part of the historic Dyes Store Butchery complex just outside of Kaukapakapa, New Zealand, today, Wednesday 19 May 2004.

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A cameraman films the sea 21 November 2002 at the oil-covered Fuera beach in cape Finisterre, northwestern Spain.

What’s a carbon sink? It’s a process where the earth soaks up atmospheric carbon, which there is more and more of in the world. Those “sinks” take the form of forests and oceans, and a new study we reported on last week says that, contrary to previous research, the earth’s ability to soak up carbon has “increased roughly in line with rising emissions.” So herewith is a slideshow of some of those carbon sinks that are helping to eat up some of the carbon in the atmosphere.