Carbon sink
noun
areas of vegetation, especially forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels
noun
in ecology, a natural environment that absorbs and stores more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it releases, which offsets greenhouse gas emission
Examples
Forests and the oceans are major carbon sinks because much of the carbon dioxide produced elsewhere on the Earth ends up in these bodies.
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