The carbon cycle

This report presents a range of statistics and facts relating to the carbon cycle. The carbon cycle is a natural process that explains how carbon moves between various ecosystems and ecological spheres across the world. Understanding this process is essential to understanding some of the basic mechanics of climate change, particularly, how carbon that was removed from the carbon cycle thousands or millions of years ago is now being reintroduced via the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, and this offsets the natural balance that has existed in nature for millennia, accelerating climate change. Additional topics that are covered include the roles of the oceans, soil, plants, and other carbon sinks in the carbon cycle.