Sentences with phrase «absorbing young tree»

This is followed by proposals to log the Tongass National Forest of Alaska (which the Bush administration approved in late 2003), and all other old - growth trees on public lands (with a flip suggestion that replacing «decadent» old trees with carbon - dioxide - absorbing young tree farms will reduce global warming).

Not exact matches

To find out how much CO2 mature trees can absorb, 4 years ago Norby and colleagues built towers to pump carbon dioxide into the canopies of four stands of young sweetgum trees.

If that same area is replanted, the young trees, within 1 or 2 years will absorb more CO2 than the previous mature trees did.

In this regard, though, I don't know how one would compare old trees with young plants of a different nature, except to say that even a young plant must grow to more than negligible size before it can absorb much CO2.

When wood burns, the carbon dioxide is released, only to be absorbed again by young trees.

They are more likely to be net absorber of CO2 annually while they are young (so maybe young trees will be defined as an «Allowable Solution»!)

It seems to me that young trees grow more quickly that older trees, thereby absorbing more energy per plant.