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Carbon Sequestration is the concept, and now a reality, of storing CO2 to stop it being released into our atmosphere, thereby slowing global warming.

Whereas trees and plant life absorb CO2 gasses, carbon sequestration essentially means the premeditated creation of ways of storage that do not naturally occur. These mass storage areas are called carbon sinks and may include things like underground geological formations, oceans, minerals, vegetation and soils.

Storing CO2 underground?

This is simply known as geological sequestration meaning that CO2 is basically pumped underground to be, over time, absorbed by the surrounding environment - that is rocks. Advocates of this method of carbon sequestration claim that the gasses will be safely stored forever in this manner, while critics of carbon sequestration that potential CO2 leaks and the energy to force the gasses underground are not worth the risk.