Sentences with phrase «gases out of the atmosphere»

Meanwhile, a group of 20 scientists studying the Otway Project in Australia since 2008 confirmed Dec. 14 that the CO2 there was behaving as it was expected to and the practice is indeed an effective way to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere for thousands and perhaps millions of years.

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.

It's too late to avoid dangerous climate change just by switching to renewable energy, so we will also have to pull the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere

However, it is increasingly likely that the world will also need to remove many billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere each year in the future.

The good news is that has kept more of the gas out of the atmosphere.

«If California allows credits for reductions in deforestation, it would send farmers and forest communities a powerful signal that living forests can be worth more than dead ones, and contribute to keeping these greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere,» said EDF's Schwartzman.

Smokestack emissions can be diverted directly into the ponds, feeding the algae while keeping greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

However, in the future the world will also then need to remove many billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere each year in the future.

In fact, when the microorganisms take enough of this greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere, the holes behave like carbon sinks.

28 May 2014 Washington, D.C. In a bid to reduce their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, corporate leaders like Chevrolet, Marks & Spencer, and Allianz continued to voluntarily purchase carbon offsets in 2013, locking 76 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, according to the annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets report, previewed by Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace this week in Cologne, Germany.

28 May 2014 Washington, D.C. In a bid to reduce their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, corporate leaders like Chevrolet, Marks & Spencer, and Allianz continued to voluntarily purchase carbon offsets in 2013, locking 76 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, according to the annual State of the -LSB-...]

Chopping and burning trees causes an estimated one - fifth of global emissions, and slowing down deforestation could be the cheapest and quickest way to keep a substantial load of gas out of the atmosphere.

And it might even be necessary to start sucking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Their message did not single out individual countries, but the administration of President Donald Trump has announced it is withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord, which seeks to curb emissions of heat - trapping gasses in the atmosphere.

If these nanotubes could be customized to distinguish other gases, many of them could be placed on a single device, creating a «nose on a chip» that could ferret out pollutants or analyze the atmospheres of other planets.

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

The ions get out of the Earth's atmosphere because when sunlight or the occasional cosmic ray hits atoms of oxygen (or any other gas) at the edge of space, those atoms can lose an electron, becoming charged.

Instead of piping in natural CO2, it will use the greenhouse gas captured at a coal - fired power plant just completed nearly 100 miles north of here and send it down into the reservoir, pushing oil out and leaving the greenhouse gas deep below, safely locked away from the atmosphere, so it does not add to global warming.

To achieve 450 ppm, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere associated with a 2 - degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures (a target advocated by the European Union), the «aggregate of fossil - fuel demand will peak out in 2020,» Tanaka says.

Most electricity generation produces CO2, but to stop the gas drastically changing climate and ocean acidity, we have to keep it out of the atmosphere

Rather than articulating the need to phase out technologies that use that atmosphere as a waste dump, the PCAST report recommends the expansion of a natural gas industry whose existence depends on us allowing them to pollute our skies.

Yet some wetland microbes secrete another potent greenhouse gas, methane, which may cancel out some of the benefits of pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Also, there is a lack of basic information on the flow of carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases into and out of the atmosphere and biosphere.

Whether they are absorbing or releasing the gas, they will always be keeping some CO2 out of the atmosphere and providing other ecological benefits.

The climate was cooling, sea levels were retreating, and huge volcanoes in India were belching out lava and lots of atmosphere - altering gases.

Most of the gases in Mars» atmosphere may have been stripped away by solar wind, Ashley Yeager reported in «Extreme gas loss dried out Mars» (SN: 4/29/17, p. 20).

«The trends in Africa of hot summers getting hotter and rainy seasons drying out are linked with factors that include increasing greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere,» said Ming Cai, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funded the research.

The number of certified homes recently reached one million, which the EPA says indicates a savings of $ 1.2 billion in energy bills and 22 billion pounds of greenhouse gases kept out of the atmosphere.

Moreover, unlike sulfur dioxide, a volcanic gas that stands out against trace background levels, the atmosphere contains higher background levels of CO2, and winds disperse any injection quickly.

The reduced density of the water - gas - mixture allows that deep water is pushed out of the pipe at the upper end to form a fountain above the water table, where gas is released to the atmosphere.

A new study suggests that beaver dams and the sediments corralled behind them sequester carbon, temporarily keeping greenhouse gases containing the element out of the atmosphere.

One possibility called out by the authors would be icy comets bombarding Earth after formation and delivering their own distinct cocktail of compounds and gases to an existing atmosphere evolved from a solar source.

The same volcanic eruptions that made the dark patches we can see on the moon spewed out enough hot gas to create an atmosphere billions of years ago

Night - time is a chance for heat to escape back out into space, but the extra greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are trapping ever more of it.

«Ozone develops in the atmosphere from gases that come out of tailpipes, smokestacks and many other sources,» reports ALA. «When these gases come in contact with sunlight, they react and form ozone smog.»

I'm still holding out for the news that reads: «Second Earth Found» -[this exoplanet] will have all the right ingredients: orbit its star inside the habitable zone, spectroscopic analysis will reveal a nitrogen - rich atmosphere, evidence of water, roughly the same mass as our planet and it will belong in a system with a couple of gas giants shepherding the outer system.

It's possible that instead of forming as terrestrial planets in place, rocky planets orbiting their stars every few days formed further out beyond the snow line where they accreted large amounts of gas before migrating and being stripped of their atmospheres.

The eruptions, they found, were intense enough that gases would have been spewed out of the surface faster than they could escape into space, forming a temporary atmosphere relatively rich in water vapor, that ensconced the Moon for about 70 million years.

With its four instruments capable of sniffing out hydrocarbons like methane in less than 1 % of the atmosphere, the Trace Gas Orbiter will start to answer those questions once ExoMars has maneuvered into position to peer through the Martian atmosphere for signs of breathing microbes, active geology, or, possibly, both.

The orbiter's chief objective is to tease out the trace constituents of the Martian atmosphere, particularly methane, a gas detected intermittently over the last decade that scientists think could be produced by microbes or undiscovered ongoing geological activity.

Reasoning that, because it fluctuated daily, water vapour was continually recycling itself in and out of the atmosphere, he turned his attention to carbon dioxide, a gas resident for a long time in the atmosphere whose concentration was only (at that time) dramatically changed by major sources such as volcanoes or major drawdowns such as unusual and massive episodes of mineral weathering or the evolution of photosynthetic plants: events that occur on very long, geological timescales.

Increased warming of the cool skin layer (via increased greenhouse gases) lowers its temperature gradient (that is the temperature difference between the top and bottom of the layer), and this reduces the rate at which heat flows out of the ocean to the atmosphere.

Adding further greenhouse gases to the atmosphere warms the ocean cool skin layer, which in turn reduces the amount of heat flowing out of the ocean.

He said regulators have always thought that there are few emissions during the drilling process, but when drilling rigs drill through shale layers containing a lot of natural gas, a pressure pulse will send gas out of the well and into the atmosphere.

A key new measurement of the inert gas argon in Mars» atmosphere by Curiosity's laboratory provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origin of Mars meteorites while at the same time providing a way to rule out Martian origin of other meteorites.

Taking better care of our soil through regenerative techniques (think crop rotations and using natural pesticides) can help drastically reduce greenhouse gas in the atmosphere (healthy soil actually sucks carbon out of the air).

Despite the flat - out sprints, the drag racing, the donuts, the top - speed runs, and dicing through traffic like there's a jet pack strapped to the trunk, Pacific Gas and Electric — which generated power for the Tesla — released into the atmosphere the same amount of carbon dioxide as would a gasoline - powered car getting 99 mpg.

Atmosphere is completely sucked out of the early gas station paintings and prints — something Ruscha admired in the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg — offering an unencumbered presentation, abstracted for clarity.

If we start out with a balanced system which contains frozen water at the poles, the mid to high latitudes begin to thaw, triggering soil greenhouse gas feedbacks (permafrost thaw and following oxic and anoxic sources add to the greenhouse gas budget), a chronic linear process (which helps to accelerate changes of the equilibrium state, reduces the ability of the atmosphere to break down greenhouse gases — less hydroxide radicals).

But you can look at past climate records, and see no sign, over many thousands of years, that solar variations have had effects of anything like the size needed to cancel out the expected effects of increased greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere over the next few decades.