Sentences with phrase «found air plants»

(I found air plants and succulents to be the cheapest here.)

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Considered benign to humans and plants, the bacterium is found in soil, air and water, and has a unique ability to survive in hot and cold climates.

Researchers in The Netherlands and the U.K. found office plants improved workers» perceptions of air quality, concentration, workplace satisfaction and productivity.

Moreover the findings proved the efficacy of stringent air pollution controls on mercury spewing coal - fired plants.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

I researched on a hemp site and found this quote,» «Hemp does not require pesticides: while half the pollutants in the U.S. Today are sprayed on cotton plants, hemp is naturally mildew resistant, requires no pesticides, and maintains a healthy environment for the surrounding streams, air, flora and fauna.»

Not surprisingly, air pollution near the Paradise plant rose, Severnini found.

But by the late Palaeozoic, land plants had evolved, boosting the level of oxygen in the air to 21 per cent, the level found today.

The findings could have important implications for planning and public health policy, and suggest that tree planting could play a role in reducing the effects of air pollution from cars.

When sagebrush plants are attacked by hungry insects, researchers have found, they emit chemical cues into the air to alert neighboring plants.

Instead of just letting scent compounds waft into the air, the plants use a particular molecule called a transporter protein to help move the compounds along, a new study found.

Now, researchers have found a nearly effortless way to filter them from the air: potted house plants, The Washington Post reports.

The findings, published online this week in the journal Ecology, show that the type of plants growing on the surface of our peaty moorlands can change how quickly dead plant material is broken down, influencing the speed with which carbon from dead plant matter is released back into the air we breathe.

The study also found that, although transmitting coal power was slightly more effective at reducing air pollution impacts than simply replacing old coal power plants with newer, cleaner ones in the east, both coal scenarios had approximately the same carbon emissions.

In babies born pre-closure, researchers found higher levels of PAH - DNA cord adducts, a biomarker for exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a toxic component of air pollution from coal plants.

The EPA's endangerment finding kicks off a process to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry, the latest sector to be regulated under the Clean Air Act after cars, trucks and large stationary sources like power plants.

While plants also absorb carbon from the air, the team found that the warming power of water vapor and the albedo effect in particular far outweigh this cooling factor.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

The report, produced with Greenpeace India, uses power plant data compiled by former World Bank air pollution analyst Sarath Guttikunda, founding director of a Delhi - based organization focused on sharing scientific information called Urban Emissions.

In analyzing this data, a multi-year task, the team found that at night, the concentrated power plant exhaust creeps atop the temperature inversion in the air where the atmosphere is relatively calm, allowing time for different kinds of chemical reactions that might not occur during the day.

A new study finds that long - term exposure to fine - particle air pollution — formed by the gasses of cars, power plants, and other sources — is associated with much higher mortality rates from cancers of the breast, upper digestive tract, and other organs.

This communicative, curious sign can find the perfect flowering friend in a whimsy air plant.

Researchers in Portugal have found that plants not only remove carbon dioxide from the air, but they can also filter out allergy aggravators like formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) like benzene.

I found a short list of plants that were good at filtering indoor air, were resilient and were considered non-toxic for children, and these are the house plants we currently have:

Not only are plants aesthetically pleasing, but NASA has found certain ones to be surprisingly useful in absorbing harmful gasses and cleaning indoor air.

Commonly found in — Air and water runoff from chemical processing plants and ore - smelting plants, cigarette smoke, groundwater, fungicides / pesticides / herbicides, meat and seafood, preservatives, electronic waste, rice — especially brown rice and brown rice syrup.

So, whether you're planning a romantic getaway for two, a family vacation, or a cruise from Port Canaveral, we invite you to find your space, plant your beach chair and breathe in the ocean air.

Here, a person can also examine the numerous plant species found in the area, see and hear howler monkeys playing, and breathe oxygen enriched air that will likely make him or her feel a burst of energy.

The five artists in the first session, which began January 3 and lasts until February 12, are Carrie Beckmann, a watercolorist who paints directly from nature and can normally be found working in the Conservatory; Danielle Durchslag, who is using cut and layered paper to represent Wave Hill's natural surroundings; Sabrina Gschwandtner, who has covered her studio floor with 16mm - film strips (some found stock and some she's shot at Wave Hill) that will be sewn together to create illuminated quilts; Nick Lamia, who is experimenting with plein - air drawings as a source for multi-dimensional abstractions; and Adam Parker Smith, who has been busily painting colorful, wall - sized assemblages of plants and flowers based on observations at Wave Hill.

Specifically, they were trying to find out if plants could be used to clean the air in orbiting

After my single, not - so - great generation finishes the «missions» (ie, fools» errands) the leading, self - proclaimed «masters of the universe» among us have set before the human community, what resources will be left for our children to consume; how many more billions of people will have to share what remains of Earth's depleted and debased resources; where will they find clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, adequate soil for planting?

In recent years, Houston has found ways to reduce air pollution, in part by zeroing in on chemical plant emissions.

Based on findings related to oceanic acidity levels during the PETM and on calculations about the cycling of carbon among the oceans, air, plants and soil, Dickens and co-authors Richard Zeebe of the University of Hawaii and James Zachos of the University of California - Santa Cruz determined that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by about 70 percent during the PETM.

More on pollution levels and control measures Find out the State of Your Air BEST Battery Program Aims to Reduce Lead Battery Poisoning in Asia Green Glossary: Superfund Huge Drop in Chinese Birth Defects After Local Coal Plant Closes

The Fraser Institute found that air pollution levels decreased slightly as a result of shutting down the coal plants in Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa, but not enough to warrant the expense.

Over the course of the two growing seasons, Brooks et al. (2000) found that the plants grown in the CO2 - enriched plots accumulated 8 and 16 % more carbon than the plants exposed to ambient air under the low and high soil nitrogen regimes, respectively.

Despite concluding in 2009 that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, a finding that triggered their regulation under the 1970 Clean Air Act, it has taken years for the administration to take on the nation's fleet of power plants.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been doing its job, as required by the Clean Air Act, ever since, including finding that carbon emissions from motor vehicles and power plants «cause or contribute to air pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.&raqAir Act, ever since, including finding that carbon emissions from motor vehicles and power plants «cause or contribute to air pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.&raqair pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.»

Fakhri Bazzaz, a plant physiologist at Harvard, has found that carbon dioxide - enriched air accelerates short - term plant growth, but his studies were carried out under controlled greenhouse conditions and are difficult to translate to a larger scale.

These findings are detailed in US Power Plant Carbon Standards and Clean Air and Health Co ‐ benefits (of which I am a coauthor), published today in Nature Climate Change.

They found unchecked wastewater discharges — from agriculture, poultry farms, chemical plants, tanneries, and even an open - air quartz quarry — were dangerously degrading water quality.

With a proposed rule on light - duty vehicles waiting in the wings, the agency issued today — opening day for the climate talks in Copenhagen — its «endangerment finding» concluding that GHGs pose a threat to both public health and welfare, tests required under the Clean Air Act in order to regulate emissions from point sources, such as power plants, manufacturing plants, and vehicles.

While the Court did not overturn EPA's analysis and conclusion that public health benefits of the MATS rule vastly outweigh the costs to the coal and oil industry, it did find that EPA should have first considered whether it was appropriate to regulate power plants under the Clean Air Act's hazardous air pollution safeguarAir Act's hazardous air pollution safeguarair pollution safeguards.

Source: «Find Your Risk from Power Plant Pollution,» Clean Air Task Force interactive table, accessed February 2011

A 2010 report from the Clean Air Task Force, The Toll From Coal found that, in the United States, particle pollution from existing coal power plants is expected to cause some 13,200 premature deaths in 2010, as well as 9,700 additional hospitalizations and 20,000 heart attacks.

Leveraging research performed by NASA, Naava's system actively draws air through the root zone of the plant to reduce harmful organic compounds often found in indoor air.

This week, however, the blog Moonbattery found a very interesting memo from Romney's office in 2005 announcing tough new regulations on emissions... Governor Mitt Romney today announced that Massachusetts will take another major step in meeting its commitment to protecting air quality when strict state limitations on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants take effect on January 1, 2006.

In case you don't know TED 2009 is going on in California: TreeHugger's own Graham Hill is in attendance, but one thing which caught my eye from the other side of the country was a slideshow on how to grow you own fresh air, using only three indoor plants: the Areca Palm, Mother - in - Law's Tongue (an unfortunately named plant if there every was one), and the Money Plant: After studying the effects these plants had on air quality for the past 15 years in a building in New Delhi, India it was found that there was a 42 % probability of increasing blood oxygen by 1 % simply by being in the building for one plant if there every was one), and the Money Plant: After studying the effects these plants had on air quality for the past 15 years in a building in New Delhi, India it was found that there was a 42 % probability of increasing blood oxygen by 1 % simply by being in the building for one Plant: After studying the effects these plants had on air quality for the past 15 years in a building in New Delhi, India it was found that there was a 42 % probability of increasing blood oxygen by 1 % simply by being in the building for one hour.

Well, we may find out soon, at least on a smaller scale, thanks to the world's first commercial plant for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air, now operating near Zurich, Switzerland.

In fact, some types of trees actively consume certain types of air pollution.Looking at oxygenated volatile organic compounds (oVOCs)-- which are emitted from both manmade and non-manmade sources and can have serious effects on the health of the environment and humans — the team found that deciduous plants take up oVOCs as much as four times more rapidly than previously thought.