Cold water from depth can hold more carbon dioxide then the tropical surface water does and will start
absorbing carbon dioxide from the air as the prevailing winds blow over it.
And big trees matter: they have a giant part in
absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but their very height means that they must work harder to haul water to the canopy.
An «inherent bias» in scientific journals in favour of more calamitous predictions has excluded research showing that marine creatures are not damaged by ocean acidification, which is caused by the sea
absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
It had gone acid,
absorbing carbon dioxide from Biosphere 2's atmosphere and forming carbonic acid as a result.
Other algorithms — including one that scans for certain pore shapes using techniques derived from facial - recognition software — then seek out the best candidates for
absorbing carbon dioxide from the flues of fossil - fuel power plants.
In these areas, deep ocean waters that are naturally rich in carbon dioxide are upwelling and mixing with surface waters that are
absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Found along the edges of much of the world's tropical coastlines, mangroves are
absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at an impressive rate.
They are one of the world's primary carbon reservoirs,
absorbing carbon dioxide from the air, storing it, and generating oxygen.
Without this fixed nitrogen, phytoplankton could not
absorb carbon dioxide from the air, a feat which is helping to check today's rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
However, researchers from Lund University in Sweden and other institutions have now shown that deforestation could also disrupt the entire rainforest's resilience, that is, its long - term ability to recover from environmental changes, and the ability to
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Machines could
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, slowing or even reversing its rise and reducing global warming
On Earth, oceans
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and deposit it as carbonate rock.
The paper confirms that as carbon emissions continue to climb, so too has Earth's capacity to
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Understanding the proportion of both is important for determining whether a large area of forest is a source of carbon dioxide, or a «sink» that helps to
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
For example, they may help researchers understand the full — and perhaps changing — potential for the plankton ecosystem to act as a sink to
absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
Ocean acidification in particular, caused as the ocean
absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, is a grave concern for stony corals, because it makes it harder for the animals to passively precipitate skeletons made of calcium carbonate, the same molecule found in antacids for heartburn and indigestion.
Plants
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it to organic carbon during photosynthesis.
During photosynthesis, plants
absorb carbon dioxide from the air and transform it into sugars and other carbon - based molecules.
The ocean naturally
absorbs carbon dioxide from the air.
As a large sink, the ocean
absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Scientists have inventoried biodiversity and have been measuring how much and how fast Amazonian forests can
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with the assumption that the plots were in their most pure state.
As regional warming caused an increased number of trees to die, there would be less living trees to
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The oceans naturally
absorb carbon dioxide from our atmosphere.
Healthy forests
absorb carbon dioxide from human fossil fuel combustion and at the same time reduce regional temperatures.
As trees grow,
they absorb carbon dioxide from the air in a process powered by the sun.
Forests
absorb carbon dioxide from the air during photosynthesis, releasing oxygen back into the air and storing captured carbon in trunks, branches, roots, and soil.
Over the course of a tree «slife
it absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thenreleases...
At the same time trees
absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
The oceans play an important role in the earth's climate; they transport heat from equator to pole, provide moisture for rain, and
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
During the summer growing season, plants
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
It does this by shifting the series of equilibria (below) to the right, thereby increasing the capacity of seawater to
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and by decreasing the propensity for seawater to desorb carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.»
During their growth life, trees
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen.
Not exact matches
Eating less meat will free up a lot of agricultural land which can revert to growing trees and other vegetation, which, in turn, will
absorb more
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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.
The nanowires collect sunlight, much like the light -
absorbing layer on a solar panel, and the bacteria use the energy
from that sunlight to carry out chemical reactions that turn
carbon dioxide into a liquid fuel such as isopropanol.
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.
Rice University materials scientists have created a light foam
from two - dimensional sheets of hexagonal - boron nitride (h - BN) that
absorbs carbon dioxide.
As the climate changes, Southern Ocean upwelling may increase, which could accelerate ice shelf melting, release more
carbon into the atmosphere and limit the ocean's ability to
absorb heat and
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Although natural photosynthesis plays a vital role in
absorbing and «fixing»
carbon dioxide emitted
from fossil fuel use, it has not prevented the net increase of this gas in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
Researchers
from the United Kingdom and Brazil also said the pair of droughts have raised concerns that the forest could be approaching a point where it ceases to be a
carbon «sink,»
absorbing more
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it produces, and flips to a
carbon source.
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.
Oceans play a key role in mitigating climate change, in part because they
absorb about 25 % of global
carbon -
dioxide emissions
from fossil - fuel burning and deforestation, he said.
We found that plants
absorb it
from the atmosphere in their leaves, much as they take up
carbon dioxide.
As the ocean mass moves north, it
absorbs additional
carbon dioxide from decomposing organic matter in the water and sediments, increasing acidity.
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.
He says the only answer may be immediate cuts in emissions of
carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels, which would curb the amount of bleaching and limit acidification of oceans that results when they
absorb carbon dioxide.
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.
As the oceans
absorb increasing amounts of
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, ocean acidification is expected to make life harder for many marine organisms, especially shellfish and other animals with shells or skeletons made of calcium carbonate.
A company that needs to eliminate 1,000 tons of emissions
from its ledger might pay for a project that will plant enough trees to
absorb that amount of
carbon dioxide.