Sentences with phrase «as the stored carbon»

We are working with other organizations to help farmers get paid for providing environmental services such as storing carbon and protecting watersheds and biodiversity.

Historically intact ecosystems, like parts of the Amazon, could be managed to simultaneously maximize biodiversity, a balanced food web and ecosystem services such as storing carbon or cleansing water, all the while preserving a feeling of wildness.

Forests provide fundamental ecosystem services for sustaining the global environment, such as storing carbon and maintaining biodiversity.

Forest degradation and deforestation is one of the prime drivers of climate change, accounting for nearly 20 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, as the stored carbon is released into the atmosphere.

I suspect that the methane that has out - gassed from the hydrates changes to CO2 in the atmosphere before it returns to the Earth as stored carbon.

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To reach its reduction targets at the store level, Thomas says «We will implement some initiatives in our stores, including installing new refrigeration systems that use carbon dioxide as a refrigerant, calibrating and optimizing energy management systems, and ongoing lighting retrofits.»

The Initiative is based on the finding that «4 ‰» annual growth rate of the soil carbon stock would make it possible to stop the present increase in atmospheric CO2 and aims to use a range of agricultural systems to sequester CO2 and store it in the ground as soil organic carbon (SOC).

The paper is a straightforward look at the how different shade coffee systems store carbon and their levels of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as how a few certifications (organic, Rainforest Alliance, UTZ Certified) influence those metrics.

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.

«This is important because trees need to grow in order to perform valuable ecosystem services, such as removing pollutants from the air and storing carbon,» says Steve Frank, an associate professor of entomology at North Carolina State University and co-author of the paper.

Random fluctuations and three physical reasons come into question to explain this: The model calculations are based on different amounts of radiant energy from the sun that impinge on Earth's surface and are stored as a result of the greenhouse effect, e.g. due to atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Forests not only store carbon that will be emitted with deforestation, they also act as an important carbon sink, which have a key role in further buffering climate change.

Furthermore, PES is going to play an even bigger role as the international community debates schemes to pay countries for the carbon stored by avoiding deforestation, an approach taken by the U.N. Development Programme called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries).

At the same time, they have been holding out the prospect of «clean coal» — in which carbon is captured and stored as coal is burned.

«We've long thought soils to be a stable, safe place to store carbon, but our results show soil carbon is not as stable as we previously thought,» said Bruce Hungate, director of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at NAU and study author.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

Coastal ecosystems store carbon, conserve biodiversity and help protect local economies such as fishing for a nominal cost

«If the winds continue to increase as a result of global warming, then we will continue to see increased energy in eddies and jets that will have significant implications for the ability of the Southern Ocean to store carbon dioxide and heat,» said Dr Hogg.

It suggests that large - scale projects to restore degraded and eroded blanket bogs could be critical in securing the future of these internationally important bird populations, alongside both water supplies and the crucial role of blanket bogs as a carbon store.

They could also store up to 1.7 % of their weight as hydrogen, about as much as carbon nanotubes could store.

Renewable energy sources, such as the sun and wind, advances in technology to capture and store the carbon created by burning coal, and even the harvesting of uranium's energy will all likely be required.

The authors found that when trees are exposed to drought, not only are climate - stressed trees less likely to take in as much carbon, but when they die, they release large amounts of stored carbon into the atmosphere.

These «second - generation» bioenergy crops are often seen as the future of bioenergy because, as perennials, they are far better at storing carbon in the soil and in their biomass than traditional fuel crops like corn and canola.

Another possibility is that the toxins are simply a way for a diatom or dinoflagellate to store excess nutrients, such as carbon or nitrogen, rather than a stress response, says microbial ecologist William Cochlan of San Francisco State University.

The world's coastal ecosystems — areas such as tidal marshes and mangrove forests — have the potential to store and sequester large amounts of carbon, collectively known as blue carbon.

It takes about a hundred years for the new growth to store as much carbon as the old forest, they calculate.

Clear - cutting loosens up carbon stored in forest soils, increasing the chances it will return to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and contribute to climate change, a Dartmouth College study shows.

Warming of arctic soils and thawing of permafrost thus can have substantial consequences for the global climate, as the large C and N stores could be released to the atmosphere as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).

They implicitly assume that it all results from additional plant growth when in fact it often occurs by displacing stored carbon, such as forests.

As such, the researchers believe that coastal «blue carbon» habitats may stand alone as the most efficient biological reservoirs of stored carbon on EartAs such, the researchers believe that coastal «blue carbon» habitats may stand alone as the most efficient biological reservoirs of stored carbon on Eartas the most efficient biological reservoirs of stored carbon on Earth.

Human activities that act on the crust are likely to multiply in the future, Wilson noted, as projects to tap into geothermal sources of energy and to store carbon dioxide emissions become more widespread.

Salt marshes, such as this one in the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in East Falmouth, Massachusetts, capture and store large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year.

One possible measure against steadily increasing greenhouse gases is known as CCS (carbon capture and storage): Here, the carbon dioxide is captured, preferably directly at the power plant, and subsequently stored deep in the ground or beneath the seabed.

Recent research suggests that healthy, intact coastal wetland ecosystems such as mangrove forests, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows are particularly good at drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it for hundreds to thousands of years.

Their research found that forests in the basin's north - east on average stored twice as much carbon as those in the south - west, as a result of soil, climate and species variation.

The Energy Department may proceed with a «modified» plan to build a prototype coal - burning power plant that would capture and store carbon dioxide as part of new efforts to expand international collaboration on carbon - management technologies, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said today.

«Oldest trees are growing faster, storing more carbon as they age.»

The unlikely material may one day compete with more high - tech solutions such as carbon nanotubes for storing hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered vehicles.

Plants are the original carbon capture and storage solution: as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, plants absorb more of the gas to fuel photosynthesis, and more carbon is stored in the soil.

One key technique involves capturing the CO2 released and storing it underground, in a process known as carbon capture and storage (CCS).

As Schlesinger reports, each year, an estimated 31 % of the carbon dioxide emitted from human activities is stored in forests.

The study is the first to differentiate between the impact of human activity in the Amazon — such as deforestation or changes in land use — and the impact of climate change to quantify the carbon - storing potential of new forests.

Conversely, Dr Wallis said that wide - scale planting of trees to store carbon — as is planned for in the Abbott Government's Direct Action Plan — could potentially consume massive volumes of water.

The study has important implications for predicting which arctic plant species will dominate as the climate warms, as well as how much carbon tundra ecosystems can store.

For example, «plant a million trees» projects are becoming popular as a way to store carbon dioxide, slow heat rise and soak up storm water.

When completed in 2011, the plant will make hydrogen from petroleum coke, an oil - refining by - product, in the process storing as much as 4 million tons of carbon dioxide a year in California's oil fields.

After better quantifying the size of stored Arctic carbon, the next question for researchers is how much permafrost will thaw as the planet warms.

As more carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, the global ocean soaks up much of the excess, storing roughly 30 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions coming from human activities.

But when the land is converted for agriculture, the plants are cut down, burned, or processed, and the stored carbon is eventually released back into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases.

Some of those carbon products transfer from the roots to symbiotic fungi and soil microbes, which store the carbon in the soil as humus.