Sentences with phrase «atmosphere via photosynthesis»

But because the carbon in biofuels is pulled directly from the atmosphere via photosynthesis, it would seem that burning ethanol does not, in and of itself, represent a net source of new CO2 to the atmosphere.

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«Biomass pulls CO2 from the air via photosynthesis,» says Noah Deich, executive director of The Center for Carbon Removal, «and the capture part prevents that CO2 from escaping back into the atmosphere.»

For example, carbon dioxide, the dominant form of carbon in the atmosphere and associated with climate change, is used by plants to generate energy via photosynthesis.

But also, it absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere, via its leaves, and by the process of photosynthesis converts that to organic (carbon based) compounds.

Radiocarbon is sequestered by trees via photosynthesis, moved to the ground, and finally released again into the atmosphere.

Carbon stored in the atmosphere, surface ocean, biomass and soils, for example, is cycled relatively quickly via processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, and air - sea gas exchange.

Because a large flux of CO2 is constantly being assimilated into the world as forests via photosynthesis, cutting off its return pathway to the atmosphere forms an effective carbon sink....

And if tectonic subduction zones did not continually recycle some of that via andesic volcanoes back into the atmosphere for photosynthesis, you and everything else on Earth would already be long dead of starvation.

The CO2 that is emitted via Respiration and is not reabsorbed via Photosynthesis exits the Cell and the greenhouse and moves into the atmosphere.