Sentences with phrase «forests for oxygen»

We also happen to rely on forests for oxygen to breathe, along with life in the sea, which is also doomed from ocean acidification.

Neither are ecosystems, as is apparent from the threat of global warming, and our common dependence on what's left of the world's forests for oxygen.

Not exact matches

But at the same time, we also should recognize that even in the background, like wetlands, forest, healthy ecosystems and so on, are doing a lot for us, that, you know if they sent us a bill it will be a lot — one providing oxygen into the atmosphere.

Going for breaks and long walks in nature, especially forests - whenever possible - while making a conscious effort to breathe deeply, will re-supply the body cells and blood with vital oxygen that trees so graciously provide to us.

There's Black Death as W'Kabi, T'Challa's head of security — face like an anvil, agreeability of a sledgehammer — and [takes inordinately long pull from oxygen tank, ambles closer with widened eyes for dramatic effect] Forest Whitaker as Zuri, T'Challa's oldhead bodyguard - slash - confessor - slash - drunk - uncle - figure.

In the midst of the political tide of darkness that has submerged the country, the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist's Pixel Forest retrospective at the New Museum is a much - needed gasp for oxygen.

The Chinese, for example, have planted a forest twice the size of New York's Central Park on a 1,750 - acre site north of the Olympic village in Beijing, to raise oxygen levels.

Putting the German forest back in the spotlight, notes The New York Times, Wohlleben is making the case for a popular reimagination of trees — which the modern world seems to think of as «organic robots,» designed for little more than to supply us humans with oxygen and wood.

An additional benefit for both the community and the rest of the world is that the trees and the soil in their forest contain large quantities of carbon, which bonds with oxygen to form the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide when released into the atmosphere.

Tropical forests not only provide oxygen for us to breathe, but also take CO2 out of the atmosphere and store much more carbon than forests in temperate regions (like those in the United States).

Scientists have known for quite some time that northern forests sequester a lot of carbon — they pull in carbon dioxide after all, and «breath» out oxygen.

Forests are critical carbon sinks, serving as both repositories for gases like CO2 and converters of CO2 to breathable oxygen.

Just as a forest depends on oxygen and sunlight for survival, the Bitcoin ecosystem depends on the blockchain.