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"Forests globally currently sequester about one-third of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions," said Medlyn.

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

Watchdogs also caution that the math to determine whether bioenergy projects sequester or release carbon is complicated and finicky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

"Because these treatments would target receptors at the surface of pain-sensing neurons, this specificity might avoid the side effects seen with other monoclonal antibodies that sequester all nerve growth factor in the body."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024

"At maturity, these plants will shade the creek and keep water temperatures down, not to mention sequester carbon from the atmosphere."

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024

The performers immediately sequester themselves in their train cars.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Each company that chooses to stay private sequesters wealth creation in the hands of a select few, rather than giving Main Street investors a chance to take a stake in the success of American enterprise.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

Urchins devour kelp, which sequesters carbon and serves as shelter and food for a vast array of marine life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

The scientists generated rice lines that express a gene that sequesters vitamin B1 in a controlled manner in the endosperm tissues.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024

In a 2021 piece for Curbed about stewarding urban nature, Stephanie Foo drew motivation from a London plane that annually sequesters an estimated 10,500 tons of carbon dioxide.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

One day Etienne sits with Marie-Laure and reads to her in his feathery voice; the next he suffers from what he calls a headache and sequesters himself inside his study behind a locked door.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The local postmaster, a Jacksonian Democrat named Alfred Huger, was unnerved by what he considered inflammatory content and sequestered the abolitionist material, rather than comply with his legal obligation to deliver the mail.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

It revealed that the lead detective who investigated the murders - a key trial witness - and two prosecution solicitors had been staying at the same hotel as the sequestered jury.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Yet at that moment—in sequestered design studios scattered around California—engineering boffins were up to their elbows in the next generation of EV pickups, and still are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

AFP reporters saw bomb squads patrolling Naypyidaw hotels ahead of the ceremony, and parliament was sequestered by rings of checkpoints.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Rejected for his diminutive stature, he sequestered himself in the Canadian wilderness, “a-huntin’ and a-fishin’.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

It also has one of the strongest offerings when it comes to capturing and sequestering carbon.

From Barron's ● Dec. 9, 2025

The peat here runs to a depth of at least nine metres, which means it has been forming for more than 9,000 years and sequestering carbon for all that time.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025

It contemplated sequestering seniors at home, without addressing how they would be kept fed and healthy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

"This is the Earth's way of sequestering carbon. Very effective on its own, but it may take hundreds of thousands if not millions of years," said Malkowski.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024

To Bush, the sequestering of knowledge and policy authority had one special virtue: it clipped Lawrence’s wings.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik