Sentences with phrase «from air»

«From the air, you can see it coming and going.

Apart from air pollution reduction, other benefits of urban green infrastructure include urban heat island mitigation, the potential reduction in energy consumption, better stormwater management, and climate change mitigation.

In the catalytic converter, the catalyst cerium oxide grabs oxygen from air and adds it to carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons to turn them into carbon dioxide, which is nonlethal.

Lack of rainfall in recent months has left soils completely dry and unable to release moisture that would take up heat from the air through evaporation.

But it also had numerous theropodlike characteristics, from the air spaces in its vertebrae to its stocky arms (although they ended in thick, short fingers rather than sharp claws).

MOFs are used to detect, purify and store gases, and could help solve some of the world's most challenging energy, environmental and pharmaceutical challenges — they can even pull water molecules straight from the air to provide relief from drought.

The team published the results in Science in 2016, reporting that the device was about 10 times as efficient as plants at removing carbon dioxide from the air.

Prather had spent 15 years developing a device that could suck in microscopic particles from the air and analyze their chemical composition in a few thousandths of a second.

Then, Ralstonia eutropha bacteria consume the hydrogen gas and pull in carbon dioxide from the air.

If technology is to save us from climate change, it has some tough challenges to master: taming wave, wind and sun, cheaply scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air or mastering fusion.

Keeping atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases below 550 ppm, let alone going back to 350 ppm or below, will not only require a massive shift in human society — from industry to diet — but also, most likely, new technologies, such as capturing CO2 directly from the air.

Being able to predict the outcome of wet collisions could lead to better ways to filter moist particles from the air and mix together wet powders to make medicine, the team says.

«We looked for hotspots from the air using an infrared camera,» Rogers says.

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: February 20, 1915 The usefulness of scouting from the air had been demonstrated in the early days of the Great War.

As the researchers were extremely careful to exclude contamination with fibers from the air, they are confident that the fish had ingested the fibers in the sea.

Thanks to thousands of photos snapped from the air, Rio de Janeiro's famous landmark can now be experienced on your screen in 3D

«We hope to do that from the air.»

Prather's instrument — a tangle of metal tubes, wires, and airtight chambers nicknamed Shirley — tick - tick - ticks as its laser blasts apart hundreds of microscopic cloud particles, one by one, that are drawn in from the air outside.

The major source of radiation exposure from air travel comes from the flight itself.

This means shedding any heat they gain from the air and the ground, from water that infiltrates through cracks, and from friction generated as the ice advances.

Growth rates for concentrations of carbon dioxide have been faster in the past 10 years than over any 10 - year period since continuous atmospheric monitoring began in the 1950s, with concentrations now roughly 35 percent above preindustrial levels (which can be determined from air bubbles trapped in ice cores).

Stainless steel pellets fired from an air gun and moving at 30 meters per second easily busted through a typical wooden plank, but got lodged in a stack of densified wood sheets with the same total thickness.

Without this fixed nitrogen, phytoplankton could not absorb carbon dioxide from the air, a feat which is helping to check today's rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

A big chunk of Alaska south of Anchorage was burning, but the state forestry department thought the situation was under control when they asked Marty Rogers to monitor the blaze from the air as it ebbed.

WATER FROM AIR This prototype device captures water from air.

On just their third day with ScratchJr, the youngsters are being introduced to the idea of programming tasks in parallel — in this case, making a snake wriggle across a grassy meadow while a bird glides down from the air.

But the real rains start in July, as storm after storm churns and sweeps across the open plains, rinsing the dust from the air, before spinning out into the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

This allows you to record high - quality video or take clear photos from the air.

This is a great option for people who are only looking to remove the moisture from the air in their small spaces.

By extracting the moisture from the air, it makes breathing more comfortable, so it is perfect for a nursery, bedroom, or office space.

And get this: it can even act as a dehumidifier because it pulls unwanted moisture from the air.

Thanks to a special material, the new device pulled water from air with

«This is important because trees need to grow in order to perform valuable ecosystem services, such as removing pollutants from the air and storing carbon,» says Steve Frank, an associate professor of entomology at North Carolina State University and co-author of the paper.

Waste heat, emitted from air conditioners and vehicles, concentrates in cities too.

An included charcoal filter will remove most odors from the air, from pets to food to smoke.

It's incredibly fun to pilot your own aircraft and to take photos and videos from the air!

HEPA Filter: HEPA filters clean 99.9 % of dust and allergens from the air.

It aids in communicating clear video from the air down to the ground.

Miss Cooper also denied that Labour's target to cut tax dodging by # 7.5 billion was simply «plucked from the air».

26 - year - old Devin Patrick Kelley received a «bad conduct discharge» from the Air Force in 2014, and was courtmartialed for assaulting his wife and child.

The Director of Public Relations of the Armed Forces, Lt. Colonel Eric Aggrey Quarshie, who said this, explained that, the three were rather «men from the Air - force base in Takoradi.»

The scene from the air of a wildfire April 24, 2016 in Ulster County near the Sam's Point preserve that has consumed more than 300 acres.

The Director of Public Relations of the Armed Forces, Lt. Colonel Eric Aggrey Quarshie, who said this, explained that, the three were rather «men from the Air - force base...

It is estimated that at least 3,000 New Yorkers die prematurely from air pollution and that $ 30 billion in additional health care and economic costs are incurred.

Also it would be nice to see the Conservatives tabling something in Holyrood thanking the tremendous efforts of Edinburgh's regiment when it comes home from Basra next month (that's home from downtown Basra by the way, not from the air base).

This is not a new policy, switching from air passenger duty to per - plane duty was first mooted by the chancellor in the 2007 pre-budget report.

Save the Children said the bomb, from an air strike, hit the entrance to the hospital in rural Idlib province.

«The truth is that Leave campaigners plucked an imaginary figure from the air and went around the country misleading the British public.

The de Blasio administration scrapped a plan to make theater owners hand over a bigger slice of the profits from air - rights sales.

I am still amazed at the capacity of our political leaders to take vital decisions about the future of our country when they must have been much more exhausted than I was and when everywhere they moved they were filmed, not just on the ground but from the air as well.