{"id":199037,"date":"2015-08-13T13:08:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=199037"},"modified":"2015-10-06T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T16:13:07","slug":"underground-reserves-of-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/underground-reserves-of-co2\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground reserves of CO<sub>2<\/sub>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_193535\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-193535\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tecnociencia_Miscanti_Lagoon_near_San_Pedro_de_Atacama_Chile_Luca_Galuzzi_2006-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Aquifers underlying deserts like the Atacama, pictured above, may be retaining carbon\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Luca Galuzzi \/ www.galuzzi.it <\/span>Aquifers underlying deserts like the Atacama, pictured above, may be retaining carbon<span class=\"media-credits\">Luca Galuzzi \/ www.galuzzi.it <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The aquifers that form in the subterranean depths of deserts around the world may be stockpiling more carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) than half of all the plants on Earth, according to researchers from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, in the United States.\u00a0 According to present knowledge, 40% of all the CO<sub>2<\/sub> produced by humans by burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests remains suspended in the atmosphere, and about 30% goes into the oceans.\u00a0 For a long time, scientists believed that the remaining 30% were absorbed by forests.\u00a0 Now they think that plants might not be sequestering all that leftover CO<sub>2<\/sub>.\u00a0 New research suggests that some of that carbon has been seeping into desert aquifers, a possibility not previously considered.\u00a0 By examining the water flux of a desert in China, researchers verified that CO<sub>2<\/sub> suspended in the atmosphere was being absorbed by plants, released into the soil and transported into underground aquifers, where it was trapped and could not escape back into the atmosphere (<em><i>Geophysical Research Letters<\/i><\/em>, July 28, 2015).\u00a0 They believe that these aquifers have been absorbing 14 times more CO<sub>2<\/sub> than once thought, every year.\u00a0 According to the researchers, knowing the locations of subterranean reservoirs \u2013 which cover an area the size of North America \u2013 could help improve the climate models currently used to estimate the effects of climate change, as well as calculations of the Earth\u2019s total carbon supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aquifers stockpile 14 times more carbon dioxide than it was believed","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[200],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-199037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199037"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=199037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}