Sentences with phrase «as vast forests»

As vast forests spread across the land living biomass increased by orders of magnitude, pulling down carbon as CO2 from the atmosphere to make wood.

Carbon dioxide concentrations will probably drop below 400 ppm by midsummer, as the vast forests of the Northern Hemisphere leaf out fully and begin breathing it in.

Not exact matches

As a result, the vast area of tropical forests has been destroyed to develop huge plantation of corn, tapioca, cotton and other commercial products.

Then it would either explode just aboveground — as one most likely did in 1908, leveling a vast forest in the Tunguska region of Siberia — or gouge a crater 20 times its size.

When ecosystems are lost, as they have been through felling of forests and conversion of landscape to agriculture on a vast scale, havoc ensues, triggering human and natural catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

Indeed, the pessimists among them talk about the planet being on the brink of a «global pandemic» of wildfires as a vast tinderbox of flammable shrubs and dead vegetation accumulates in forests, brush and grassland.

They pollinate plants, including 80 percent of the world's 94 major food crops, as well as vast tracts of tropical rain forest.

And in more temperate regions, bugs could even benefit: As the pine beetles eating their way through the vast boreal forests of western North America prove, changes in climatic patterns can help insect pests by allowing them to survive through the winter.

Tropical forests and savannas exchange vast amounts of energy and matter with their surroundings and, as such, contribute to the local and global climate.

But as logging opened up vast swaths of Central African rain forest, poachers increasingly targeted elusive forest elephants under a green canopy that hid their kills from aerial surveillance.

Analyses by GOSAT and GOME - 2 have been limited to vast expanses such as North America's boreal forests, the Amazon rainforest and the US corn belt.

Over recent decades the remaining Amazon forest has acted as a vast «carbon sink» — absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases — helping to put a brake on the rate of climate change.

This «biotic pump» model contends that a vast forest such as the Amazon draws in large amounts of water vapor.

Parts of the vast rain forest are as much aquatic as terrestrial ecosystems.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing got buried; the plants» debris over time formed most of the coal that today is used as fossil fuel.

Opening on the vast greenery outbacks of New Zealand, Waititi takes us into the thick trees and forest wildlife to meet Ricky Baker (Dennison), a big city kid who has been in and out of foster care and «juvey» for a few years as the social services try desperately to rehome him before his reckless behaviour gets him into more serious trouble.

The story revolves around two men that go into Japan's Aokigahara, a mysterious and vast forest also known as the Suicide Forest or Sea of forest also known as the Suicide Forest or Sea of Forest or Sea of Trees.

Obviously, the vast majority of tropical rain forest and desert denizens are out of the question, except for many of the arachnids, which tend to be nocturnal and adjust very well to tanks with a limited and low - level heat source, such as an under - tank heater.

They are great beaches to explore as well offering vast wildlife and forest terrain.

We drive for many kilometers through a vast forest with pine trees and spruces as far as the eye can see.

As the biggest Scandinavian country, it is blessed with long coastal areas, thousands of lakes, vast green forests, and majestic snow - covered mountains, there are so many charming places to visit in Sweden.

While it shares some of Raja Ampat's best features such as exceptional soft coral growth, it also has some unique features, not least the vast forest - like swathes of black coral.

There are regular cultural displays, art exhibitions, musical performances, plus a vast forest that can be enjoyed as a slightly touristic but worth the while nonetheless Monkey Forest day outing just watch out for the thieving moforest that can be enjoyed as a slightly touristic but worth the while nonetheless Monkey Forest day outing just watch out for the thieving moForest day outing just watch out for the thieving monkeys.

In the vast Savannas are found as a genuine alternative program spacious pine forests.

The result of this is some truly breathtaking dungeon designs that encompass vast waterfalls, underground forests and many more unique designs, including the stunning Blackreach, which you'll just have to experience for yourself as words can't do it justice.

The environment design is faithful to the subject matter as it includes environments from eight Harry Potter films such as the vast amount of areas in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Diagon Alley, Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Forbidden Forests, Grimmauld Square and Place, Kings Cross Station, Ministry of Magic and much more besides.

In this stunning open - air adventure, travel across vast fields, through forests, and to mountain peaks as you discover what has become of the kingdom of Hyrule.

Platforming is at the forefront as you explore different parts of a vast forest called Nibel.

Players can explore new regions starting from today, expanding the variety and beauty of Age of Wulin as sun - scorched deserts, stunning and vast grasslands, breath - taking snowy peaks and mysterious forests of stone are introduced.

Soon, Adol finds himself beginning a new journey with an unknown companion as they delve into the forest on a quest to explore its vast expanses, searching for clues to his identity along the way.

So far we've seen verdant forest settings and a spectacularly detailed underwater mission, complete with coral reefs and vast schools of fish, ducking beneath the Spec Ops divers as they stalk an enemy ship.

After many interviews with biologists and climate scientists focused on the Amazon, as well as people like Bruce Babbitt, the former United States secretary of the interior who has spent a lot of time crisscrossing the Amazon, I remain convinced that there is a path to development for Brazil — even with the growing global appetite for soy and biofuels and roads to the Pacific — that can preserve a large fraction of the vast forest region.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

The core questions there now are the same as they were in 1989 and 1990, when I was lucky enough to crisscross the Brazilian portion of that vast river basin for months researching my book on the murder of the forest defender Chico Mendes.

But an unregulated biofuels boom in Brazil could mean bust for the Amazon rain forest and a vast savanna ecosystem known as the Cerrado, environmentalists warn.

It also says that its target include accounting as generously as possible for carbon dioxide absorbed by its vast boreal forests.

It's the latest example of the vast shifts happening to the forests that cover Siberia and the rest of the northern tier of the world as climate change alters the landscape.

IMHO, applying stochastic methods on some specific grid points in the climate models that might have something «unusual», such as a random forest fire, forest clearance, crop failure, or a vast algal bloom, or overfishing going on, might be reasonable, but deteremining the boundary conditions for these to happen is another matter.

Wildfires could flip the script, though, turning boreal forests into sources of carbon emissions as fires burn through the vast reserves of carbon locked in the trees and soil (something already happening in California).

Wildfires could flip the script, though, turning boreal forests into sources of carbon emissions as fires burn through the vast reserves of carbon locked in the trees and soil (something

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2910017.stm «The vast numbers affected by the effects of climate change, such as flooding, drought and forest fires, mean that potentially people, organisations and even countries could be seeking compensation for the damage caused.

(Washington and Cook 2011: 30 - 31) This is so because, among other things, there are vast amounts of methane stored in permafrost, methane hydrates on the ocean floor, and carbon in the forests that could be released as the world warms.

Famously wet tropical forests, such as those in the Amazon, go up in flames, destroying the world's richest wildlife habitats and releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide to speed global warming.

And by the way, as climate change progresses, vast infected and diseased forested will be coming to a forest near you.

As the Canadian climate has warmed, pine beetles have spread across vast acreages of Canadian forest land: estimated to presently constitute 7 percent of Earth's total forests.

Research findings will fill critical data and knowledge gaps, serve as the basis for engaging key stakeholders at the state and federal levels, and build demand for strategies that address and limit the climate disruption of Alaska's vast forest carbon stocks.

In the drive to produce more palm oil, for use in food and health products or in biodiesel, more and more forest is chopped down — in the process releasing vast amounts of stored carbon in the soil and reducing the carbon storage potential of the region, as well as destroying habitat for orangutans and other endangered species.