Sentences with phrase «by absorbing carbon dioxide»

Trees help mitigate carbon emissions by absorbing carbon dioxide into their tissues as they grow.

By absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, the ocean slows down global climate change.

Not exact matches

Some of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed by water in oceans and rivers.

Healthy, intact natural systems provide many benefits to the challenges posed by climate change, from forests that sequester and store carbon dioxide to wetlands that act as natural flood absorbers.

Therefore, the Amazon recycles the CO2 from its own river system, and not that fixed by the tropical forest, releasing as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as it absorbs.

One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.

Oceans are taking in about 90 percent of the excess heat created by human greenhouse gas emissions, but they're also absorbing some of the carbon dioxide (CO2) itself.

The decline of sea ice spurs the process, by allowing open water to absorb carbon dioxide.

As humans emit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, more of the gas is absorbed by the oceans, gradually making the water more acidic.

How light of different colors is absorbed by carbon dioxide (CO2) can now be accurately predicted using new calculations developed by a UCL - led team of scientists.

Having travelled around the world, our carbon dioxide returns to North America and is absorbed by a swamp tree.

Laborious research in the 1960s by the late pioneering U.S. ecologist Eugene Odum seemed to indicate that forests achieve a balance between the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed by growing trees and plants and the amount of CO2 released back into the atmosphere by the decomposition of dead plant matter.

This is happening because humans have been producing carbon dioxide (for example, by running cars on gasoline) faster than plants can absorb it, which makes the Earth warmer — and much faster than has happened naturally in the past.

The heat absorbed by water vapor and carbon dioxide is shared with all the nitrogen, oxygen and argon, because the latter molecules are always bumping into water vapor and carbon dioxide as they mix in the atmosphere.

By seeing which wavelengths are absorbed as the starlight passes through the planet's atmosphere, astronomers could determine whether the atmosphere contains water, carbon monoxide, methane, and carbon dioxide.

Instead of dissipating into space, the infrared radiation that is absorbed by atmospheric water vapor or carbon dioxide produces heating, which in turn makes the earths surface warmer.

The next most abundant gases — water vapor and carbon dioxide — do absorb a portion of the infrared heat radiated by the earth's surface, thereby preventing it from reaching space.

The trees that are able to cope in a warmer world by absorbing more carbon dioxide are at higher risk of death in multiple ways.

Acidity may impair movement Previous research has shown that when carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean and it becomes more acidic, concentrations of calcium carbonate drop, and that hurts shellfish and corals, which use calcium carbonate to build shells and skeletons.

When carbon dioxide, CO2, from the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean, it forms carbonic acid (the same thing that makes soda fizz), making the ocean more acidic and decreasing the ocean's pH. This increase in acidity makes it more difficult for many marine organisms to grow their shells and skeletons, and threatens coral reefs the world over.

Over the last few centuries, the ocean has absorbed huge amounts of the carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels.

That fast - spreading development is creating additional water stress while simultaneously damaging the ecosystem's ability to absorb carbon dioxide and store or «fix» it in plants, according to the research — a study led by scientists at the University of Montana and published in the journal Science.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

One of the many downsides of too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is what happens when some of that CO2 is absorbed by the oceans.

It destroys the rain forest habitat, fails to alleviate poverty, and contributes to global warming by eliminating trees that would absorb and store carbon dioxide.

(The ocean currently absorbs roughly half of the greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, that are released by human activity.)

The OCO would have helped scientists monitor global warming by measuring how much carbon dioxide was in a given part of the atmosphere and where it was being absorbed.

Carbon - 14 can combine with oxygen in the atmosphere to create carbon dioxide, which is then absorbed by plants and makes its way through the food chain.

Russia says its 2030 pledge will include the highest possible estimate of carbon dioxide absorbed by forests when they come to count its national emissions.

Powered by wasted heat from the incinerator, the collectors use fans to suck ambient air into filters, which absorb carbon dioxide.

Oceans have absorbed about one - third of the excess carbon dioxide spewed by the burning of fossil fuels.

While the 2030 target is explicit that carbon dioxide absorbed by forests will count towards its overall emissions reductions, it is unclear whether they are permitted in its 2020 target.

The ocean absorbs a third of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by the burning of fossil fuels — a priceless «service» reducing global warming.

Environmentally, the fires are a double whammy: They destroy trees that help to slow global warming by absorbing heat - trapping carbon dioxide as they grow.

(Note vast areas of the high latitude oceans were covered by ice, during the coldest period and could hence no longer absorb carbon dioxide.)

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

In our second interview, a new and unexpected feed - back loop could limit the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the ocean.

The Sun is important because it provides the Earth heat, it creates our daylight by emiting electromagnetic radiation, it allows plants to grow via photosynthesis which in turn absorb carbon dioxide and create oxygen.

The significance of the limited ability of the oceans to absorb carbon dioxide caught on after a while and was elaborated upon by Swedish meteorologists Bert Bolin and Erik Eriksson, who explained what happens.

«Algae absorb carbon dioxide and are intrinsically solar - powered by photosynthesis, but C. zofingiensis has an added benefit in that it can be cultivated on non-arable land and in wastewater.»

The fizziness in soda is carbon dioxide, which gets absorbed by our gut, but the high fructose in the soda's corn syrup may be another culprit.

Start by planting ten trees we each need to absorb the carbon dioxide we exhale.

Every day, millions of tons of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere by plants, which is subsequently absorbed by the ocean.

By 2020, rather than absorbing CO2, our forests are expected to emit as much carbon dioxide as 5 years of all transportation in Canada.

The business plan had been to sell «carbon offset» credits earned by triggering blooms of phytoplankton that, in theory, would absorb a predictable amount of the climate - warming gas carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and then sink to the seabed.

Now scientists say they may have discovered one of those unanticipated possibilities: a significant change in the ear anatomy of fish raised in water with elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission, much of which is absorbed by the sea.

The carbon dioxide in the air is absorbed by reaction with some of the sodium hydroxide to form sodium carbonate.

«Most authors have dismissed this theory with a remark similar to the following quotation from C. E. P. BROOKS (1951): the carbon dioxide theory was «abandoned when it was found that all the long - wave radiation absorbed by CO, is also absorbed by water vapour.»

Along with a boosted catch, a second hoped - for payoff was the sale of carbon credits on international markets aimed at offsetting greenhouse gas pollution by financing projects that absorb heat - trapping carbon dioxide — typically by planting trees but in this case through spurring plankton growth.

Some scientists have estimated that hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide might be absorbed by fertilized seas, particularly in regions low in iron.