Sentences with phrase «fresh plant carbon»

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Stark is especially interested in drought - resistant, low - carbon - footprint wild edible plants that could serve as a source of fresh, affordable, and nutritious food for people living in urban food deserts.

Even with abundant carbon and nitrogen to consume, the size of the plant and its limited access to fresh water make it almost inconceivable that it could even survive in the Arctic, let alone muster up enough power and mass to change the Earth's entire climate, saving our planet, perhaps, from a Venus - like, overheated oblivion.

They also don't know how the process would be affected if power plants were to mix the carbon dioxide with readily available saltwater instead of fresh water.

There, James Kanter has a fresh post on developments related to the growing trade in carbon offsets, credits a person or company can buy from someone planting trees or building windmills or the like, which — in theory at least — could compensate for unavoidable emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases.

The three main sections describe planned regulations, rules and standards aimed at cutting releases of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants, heavy vehicles and buildings; a suite of new steps to cut vulnerability to climate and coastal hazards; and a fresh summary of international initiatives the administration plans to pursue with other countries.

In addition to rising temperatures, the report discussed a variety of «other possible effects of an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide», including melting of the Antarctic ice cap, rise of sea level, warming of sea water, increased acidity of fresh waters (which also applies to the danger of ocean acidification, global warming's evil twin), and an increase in plant photosynthesis.

It will sequester only so much carbon, but there are sure to be other benefits, according to some fresh thinking by a distinguished plant ecologist.