Sentences with phrase «atmosphere by plant»

CO2 is removed from the atmosphere by plant photosynthesis (123 ± 8 PgC / year).

Carbon fixed into plants is then cycled through plant tissues, litter and soil carbon and can be released back into the atmosphere by plant, microbial and animal respiration and other processes (e.g. forest fires) on a very wide range of time scales (seconds to millennia).

Figure 2: Data show that CO2 removed from the atmosphere by plant growth does not compensate for fossil fuel emissions.

For a very long time, carbon has been taken out of the atmosphere by the plant world.

Moisture that evaporates from the ocean tends to be lighter than water vapor released into the atmosphere by plants.

The researchers have predicted that increasing smog would prevent as much as 263 billion metric tons of carbon from being taken out of the atmosphere by plants over the past and coming century, though this depends on how tropical plants respond to O3 pollution.

To stay within the budget, global emissions would have to peak by 2020, and then become negative — with more CO2 being taken out of the atmosphere by plants and the oceans than is put into the air each year — by 2090.

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

Whatever CO2 released by decomposing and animal waste from plants was absorbed from the atmosphere by plants for their growth in the recent past.

However, the carbon you exhale into the atmosphere was recently removed from the atmosphere by plants during photosynthesis, yielding a net change of zero.

Instead, carbon sequestered from the atmosphere by plants and stored in biomass has value because it provides humanity with at least one key service: mitigation of damaging climate change.

Not exact matches

And it has a very helpful atmosphere which, in the case of Mars, being primarily CO2 with some nitrogen, and argon, and few other trace elements, means that we can grow plants on Mars just by compressing the atmosphere.

The plant was by all accounts a microcosm of corporate America — a facility that was well equipped but had a toxic atmosphere, the kind of place where managers perpetually told employees what they were doing wrong and union workers retaliated by finding excuses not to work.

There is nothing logically self - contradictory in the idea that we and other animals could have existed without requiring food (as angels presumably do) or by getting our nourishment directly from the atmosphere or the ocean (as do some plants).

But by stopping the destruction of mature (old - growth) forests, we prevent a huge amount of carbon from going into the atmosphere, and by promoting Earth - friendly planting and management of young forests, we absorb large amounts of atmospheric carbon.

To me, it is obvious over time that plant problems relate to either dirt or atmosphere and their contact with chile plants: I eliminate those possibilities by using hydroponic techniques.

Not great, but the carbon has to first be removed by those plants (either very short term or on a scale of decades or centuries) before burning them can put it back into the atmosphere.

In addition, plants also release oxygen to the atmosphere, which is subsequently used for respiration by heterotrophic organisms, forming a cycle.

The Earth's climate system is characterised by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, ice sheets, landmasses and the biosphere (parts of the world with plant and animal life).

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.

A team of researchers lead by Florida State University have found new evidence that permafrost thawing is releasing large quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere via plants, which could accelerate warming trends.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

As people burn fuels — in cars, power plants and factories — nitrogen is released into the atmosphere and absorbed by plants.

By accounting for both CO2 and oxygen levels in the atmosphere, scientists have calculated that oceans and plants each absorb roughly one - quarter of humanity's CO2 emissions, leaving half to build up in the atmosphere.

The researchers are particularly interested in the carbon cycle, the uptake of CO2 by plants as they grow and the recycling of some of this carbon back into the atmosphere via respiration.

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.

A new climate change modeling tool developed by scientists at Indiana University, Princeton University and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration finds that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere owing to greater plant growth from rising CO2 levels will be partially offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes that derive their energy from plant root growth.

Imagine a power plant that takes the excess carbon dioxide (CO2) put in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and converts it back into fuel.

Instead, as suggested by the trickle - up theory of salmon restoration, the plankton tends to get eaten by tiny animals, which are then eaten by larger animals until, ultimately, all or most of the CO2 sucked up by the tiny plants during their photosynthetic life spans finds its way back to the atmosphere in relatively short order.

Oxygen, which would quickly react out of Earth's atmosphere if it weren't continually produced by plants, is closer to a smoking gun, especially if it were seen together with methane.

That's because CO2 is added to the atmosphere not just by burning the tree but also through the process of cutting it down and transporting it to the power plant, as well as from the forest now missing a tree.

The findings, published in Environmental Research Letters, highlight the importance of heat - mitigation strategies and infrastructures such as green roofs — in which vegetation transfers moisture from the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation of water and transpiration from plants.

Produced by the burning of fossil fuels in power plants and car engines, carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in the atmosphere, warming the planet.

In the past, some people have argued that the increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growth.

It occurs, for example, if barren land is planted to crops because all that carbon taken up by the crops would otherwise be in the atmosphere.

Like plants on land, phytoplankton produce energy by photosynthesis, pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fuel the process.

But the fungi that live on the plant roots might undo some of that extra work by releasing CO2 back into the atmosphere again.

They found that the fungi simply respired the extra carbon supplied by the rapidly photosynthesising plants, returning it to the atmosphere as CO2.

The achievement will allow researchers to conduct further studies to determine how the hormone helps plants respond to drought and other environmental stresses driven by the continuing increase in the atmosphere's carbon dioxide, or CO2, concentration.

Plant samples preserved underneath these outlet glaciers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic led NSF - funded researchers to conclude that the Earth's Little Ice Age began in 1275 and was triggered by repeated volcanic eruptions that cooled the atmosphere.

«Photosynthesis was such a powerful invention that it changed Earth's atmosphere by producing oxygen, allowing diverse and complex life forms — algae, plants, and animals — to evolve.»

They recycled their sewage and effluent, drinking the same water countless times, totally purified by their plants, soil, atmosphere, and machines.

High temperatures increase weathering of silicate rocks, and this sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into the oceans — a process aided by plants.

That tree - planting was a small part of one of the fastest - growing businesses in the world: the sale of promises to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, often at bargain - basement prices, by planting forests or investing in renewable - energy projects.

The dispute is the latest skirmish in a fight over whether power plants fueled by wood should be promoted as climate - friendly, or discouraged for putting more carbon into the atmosphere and imperiling forests.

Between 80 % and 90 % of methane emitted from rice fields is produced by microbes living on plant roots; some of the gas dissolves into the water and bubbles up, but most is absorbed along with water by plant roots, travels up to the stems and leaves, and escapes into the atmosphere.

The apparent rise in evapotranspiration — the process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation from plants and soil — is increasing potential drought risk with rising temperature trends, especially during periodic drought cycles that have been linked with strong El Nino events.

Collectively, these data show general increasing trends in both plant growth and evaporation with recent climate change mainly driven by vegetation greening and rising atmosphere moisture deficits.

(Methane forms as a by - product of anaerobic bacterial decomposition of organic matter in the soil and reaches the atmosphere through the roots and stems of the rice plants.)

These compounds are first emitted by plants into the atmosphere and then oxidized by common oxidants, ozone or the OH - radicals.