Carbon farming takes excess
carbon out of the atmosphere, where concentrations have reached unprecedented levels, and stores it in farm soils.
Noh - Bec's forest management practices not only provide good habitat and a sustainable wood harvest, they also ensure these trees will help keep
carbon out of the atmosphere.
Although the oceans are currently the greatest carbon sink, terrestrial carbon sinks also play a significant role in keeping
the carbon out of the atmosphere.
Not only can N. europaea convert ammonia into energy, but the bacterium sucks
carbon out of the atmosphere in the process.
Taking
carbon out of the atmosphere will be crucial if we are to slow the progress of climate change.
Bogs, swamps and mires help keep 500 billion metric tons of
carbon out of the atmosphere, so preserving peatlands is emerging as a new priority
Within the constraints of this Congress, we've tried to do a whole range of things, administratively, that are making a difference - doubling fuel - efficiency standards on cars is going to take a whole lot of
carbon out of our atmosphere.
Project manager Scott Brundrett inside the demonstration plant in Squamish, B.C., that is developing a system to pull
carbon out of the atmosphere.
The process transforms the biological matter into a more stable form of carbon, slowing the release cycle and thereby keeping more
carbon out of the atmosphere.
Berkeley Lab received these competitive awards from ARPA - E's Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration (ROOTS) program, which seeks to develop crops that take
carbon out of the atmosphere and store it in soil — enabling a 50 percent increase in carbon deposition depth and accumulation while also reducing nitrous oxide emissions by 50 percent and increasing water productivity by 25 percent.
She's pushing for stricter environmental toxin reforms to protect vulnerable, low - income communities and more advanced farming systems that pull excess
carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil.
Using methods like planting shrubs, fertilizing with compost, and moving cover crops, the Institute has been able to keep
carbon out of the atmosphere and in the soil, where it can better conserve water.
And we need every bit of help pulling
carbon out of the atmosphere that we can get.
This is extremely important as it may be the only sensible and cost effective way of sucking
carbon out of the atmosphere.
It is the plants on the planet that absorb carbon dioxide, so it is between forests and the rest of the productive landscape to take
carbon out of the atmosphere.
Taking
carbon out of the atmosphere: The first approach would entail sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
DeMocker adds that McPherson «never mentioned that you can pull
carbon out of the atmosphere and reduce the 400 ppm to a livable amount.
The Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA) is an alliance of environment and social NGOs committed to keeping natural terrestrial ecosystems intact and
their carbon out of the atmosphere, in an equitable and transparent way that respects the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities.
The green line is the natural contribution to atmospheric CO2, and we can see that it is not only negative (meaning the natural environment takes up more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits into it), but that it has been taking more and more
carbon out of the atmosphere each year as time progresses.
We can take
carbon out of the atmosphere, through biofuels, or by using solar / nuclear heat to turn CaCO3 into CaO and a pure stream of CO2 (to be sequestered), subsequently allowing the CaO to absorb CO2 from the air and so forth.
In fact those synthetic organisms can pull
carbon out of the atmosphere and store it liquid forms that could, if we so desire, be put into the fuel tanks of extant internal and external combustion engines like trains, planes, automobiles, and electrical generation plants.
The ultimate problem is that carbon is such a jim - dandy construction material for everything from fuel to food to furniture that once bio-technology is mastered people will be sucking
carbon out of the atmosphere for a lot more than just fuel and when it's sucked out for durable goods it doesn't get returned anytime soon.
GHG emission mitigation strategies designed to prevent GHGs from going in to the atmosphere would be one side of the «carbon management» coin, CDR strategies designed to take
carbon out of the atmosphere would be the other side of this coin.
The Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA)(www.ecosystemsclimate.org) is an alliance of environment and social NGOs committed to keeping natural terrestrial ecosystems intact and
their carbon out of the atmosphere, in an equitable and transparent way that respects the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities.
Trees take heat - trapping
carbon out of the atmosphere as they grow and store it for as long as the trees live.
In the same way, it's better to keep the trees on the land and keep all that
carbon out of the atmosphere.»
«India has already started reducing emission intensity, reducing the energy intensity of development, increasing energy efficiency and also increasing the forest cover (to take more
carbon out of the atmosphere).
For more than a decade, researchers have struggled and failed to balance global carbon budgets, which must balance carbon emissions to the atmosphere from fossil fuels (6.3 Pg per year; numbers here from Skee Houghton at Woods Hole Research Center) and land use change (2.2 Pg; deforestation, agriculture etc.) with carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere (3.2 Pg) and the carbon sinks taking
carbon out of the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide dissolving in Ocean surface waters (2.4 Pg).
The process is called Iron fertilization, and is designed to take
carbon out of the atmosphere to help you mitigate your contribution to global warming.
The only way to lower this risk is to rapidly reduce to zero the amount of carbon hitting the atmosphere from human sources while ultimately learning how to pull
carbon out of the atmosphere.
«The plants love it and it actually becomes a way of taking
carbon out of the atmosphere,» Antarctic scientist Steve Nicol told Reuters, adding the droppings appear as a plume of solids and liquids.
«Biomass lobbyists claim burning trees creates no carbon pollution, because «somewhere» other trees are growing and taking
carbon out of the atmosphere,» according to Biomess101.
The group wanted her to study the land they were ranching to see if putting compost on grasslands might stimulate the landscape to siphon
carbon out of the atmosphere and incorporate it into the soil.
But Brack insists that, even accepting Drax's premise, wood cut for construction or making furniture will keep
its carbon out of the atmosphere for much longer than wood cut to burn in a power station.
BECSS — Bioenergy and CCS One of the cheaper ways to take
carbon out of the atmosphere is to combine bioenergy and carbon capture and storage.
However, we know that tropical forests keep
carbon out of the atmosphere, keep the land surface cool, and play a critical role in providing habitat, maintaining biodiversity, and other good stuff for people.
Hope in Organic Farming: Agricultural Carbon Capture and Sequestration Even if we acted sustainably by stopping carbon emissions today, we would not be living on a healthy planet — we need agriculture to pull
carbon out of the atmosphere.
Not only would reversing this decline help draw some of the excess
carbon out of the atmosphere, but it would also help mitigate the impacts of climate change by reducing flooding, increasing food production, and preventing runoff into rivers and streams.
We know that your decision to buy organic food and advocate for organic agriculture will support farmers who are pulling
carbon out of the atmosphere, mitigating global climate change.
Even with massive deployment of CCS over coming decades, most scenarios modelled by the IPCC overshoot the carbon budget and require that in the latter part of the century, we actually take more
carbon out of the atmosphere than we put into it.
The panel is putting its hopes in technologies that allow us to pull
carbon out of the atmosphere toward the end of the century.
Not exact matches
Who knows, there might be other life forms
out there on planets with differnt types
of suns, other types
of atmosphere, maybe even based on something other than
carbon... Religion can't answer those questions, but science, ever so slowly, is plugging away at the answers.
If the production rate
of C - 14 in the
atmosphere was less in the past, dates given using the
carbon - 14 method would incorrectly assume that more had decayed
out of a specimen than what actually occurred, and would result in faulty data.
The changes to the
atmosphere and the changes to the resources we have on this planet from depleting our resources and taking
carbon out of the ground is something, regardless
of somebody's politics — you can't keep doing that long - term.
And yeah, we have ecosystems [that] are storing
carbon and keeping it
out of the
atmosphere, a lot
of that actually.
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.
But black
carbon stays in the
atmosphere for only a few days or weeks, depending on the size
of the particles, before the particles are flushed
out through rain, snow or other forms
of precipitation.
The researchers say that countries must also tackle short - lived climate pollutants like hydrofluorocarbons that accelerate warming greatly in the near term, and take some
of the
carbon that is currently in the
atmosphere out.
As the eons passed, most
of the
carbon dioxide was absorbed into carbonate rocks, and Earth's
atmosphere, which started
out 10 to 20 times as thick as it is today, gradually thinned.
When we drive our car and
carbon dioxide comes
out of the tailpipe, within a year it has spread throughout the
atmosphere and is integrated with the surface ocean.