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Footnote 011 / What Is Carbon?

  • ---. “To Truly Grasp What We’re Doing to the Planet, You Need to Understand This Gigantic Measurement”. The Washington Post, 1 July 2015. www.washingtonpost.com, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/07/01/meet-the-gigaton-the-huge-unit-that-scientists-use-to-track-planetary-change/.
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. “Leaving More Big Fish in the Sea Reduces Carbon Dioxide Emissions”. ScienceDaily, Oct. 2020, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201028143124.htm.
  • Bar-On, Yinon M., et al. “The Biomass Distribution on Earth”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 115, no. 25, June 2018, p. 6506, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711842115.
  • “Forest Carbon Sequestration Lesson Plan”. Forest Learning, https://forestlearning.edu.au/find-a-resource/article/11/how-is-carbon-stored-in-wood-products.html. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.
  • “Matter, Elements, and Atoms | Chemistry of Life (Article)”. Khan Academy, https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/chemistry-of-life/elements-of-life/a/matter-elements-atoms-article. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.
  • “Periodic Table”. Royal Society of Chemistry, https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.
  • Resnick, Brian. “All Life on Earth, in One Staggering Chart”. Vox, 29 May 2018, https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17386112/all-life-on-earth-chart-weight-plants-animals-pnas.
  • “SI Units”. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 12 Apr. 2010, https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si/si-units.
  • “What Is Carbon?”. The Guardian, 3 Feb. 2011. The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/feb/03/carbon.
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