Sentences with phrase «capture large amounts of carbon»

Old - growth forests are vital because they capture large amounts of carbon and provide homes to hundreds of species.

... some researchers think that by seeding the ocean with iron, we can capture large amounts of carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere.

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If damaged, they would stop capturing carbon dioxide and a large amount of it could be released into the atmosphere by decomposing vegetation

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.

Scientists previously thought it wasn't possible to capture and store carbon this way because earlier studies suggested it could take thousands of years for large amounts of carbon dioxide to be converted to chalk.

The Breakthrough team warns that while deployment of today's technologies is vital, if money for deployment is included in the $ 150 - billion pie, that dangerously reduces the amount of money for laboratories pursuing vital advances on photovoltaics or energy storage and for big tests of technologies that must be demonstrated at large scale — like capturing carbon dioxide from power plants.

There is wide agreement among scientists that inadequate funds are going to basic research in such fields as capturing carbon dioxide from smokestacks or the atmosphere, advancing photovoltaic cells and other solar power systems, finding ways to store large amounts of electricity from intermittent sources like wind or the sun, and making nuclear power more secure.

Take, for instance, large - scale bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a geoengineering technology that generates power by growing significant amounts of biomass, burning it, and then storing the carbon underground.

Moreover, it reaches this goal without making (as many climate modelers do) desperate assumptions about horrifically large - scale deployment of bioenergy - based carbon capture and storage systems (the acronym is BECCS) that generate fantastic amounts of «negative emissions.»

Achieving that goal will be more than twice as hard as staying below 2 C and it would involve making sharp adjustments to rich - country lifestyles, large amounts of foreign aid and deploying carbon dioxide removal measures like bioenergy carbon capture and storage on a massive scale.