Sentences with phrase «help absorb carbon»

Promoting habitat networks and planting more trees by creating more green areas in cities can help absorb carbon dioxide pollution.

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Hemp could help address climate change, since it absorbs four times more carbon dioxide than trees while growing in just a fraction of the time.

They have a carbon filter to absorb the gas given off by the produce, a basket inside which helps with airflow, and a vent to control humidity.

Along with its futuristic design, Playtex Baby Diaper Genie Elite Pail also interestingly features activated carbon, whose properties help absorb unwanted odors.

These sensors could reveal patterns that help explain why the tropical Pacific emits carbon dioxide, rather than absorbing it like most of the rest of ocean.

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.

The fungus consumes carbon compounds released by tree roots, says the UW - Madison associate professor of botany and bacteriology, and in return helps the roots absorb soil nutrients.

The idea is to replace the patient's lost fluids and essential salts, while the glucose acts as a source of carbon and helps the intestine to absorb the salts more efficiently.

Understanding the proportion of both is important for determining whether a large area of forest is a source of carbon dioxide, or a «sink» that helps to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The reason: the world's oceans and forests, which scientists were counting on to help hold off catastrophic rises in carbon dioxide, are already so full of CO2 that they are losing their ability to absorb this climate change culprit.

For example, they may help researchers understand the full — and perhaps changing — potential for the plankton ecosystem to act as a sink to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.

For example, the new study notes that restoring whale populations could help increase the ocean's capacity to absorb climate - warming carbon dioxide.

The OCO would have helped scientists monitor global warming by measuring how much carbon dioxide was in a given part of the atmosphere and where it was being absorbed.

Buckyballs, carbon compounds shaped like soccer balls, can survive between stars and absorb their light, astronomers announced, helping solve a nearly century - old mystery.

Over recent decades the remaining Amazon forest has acted as a vast «carbon sink» — absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases — helping to put a brake on the rate of climate change.

These temperate forests are helping to tip the balance in the right direction, absorbing about one - third of the total contribution by forests globally — about 800 million tons of carbon annually during the study period.

Savannahs, though they are not jam - packed with carbon - absorbing trees, nonetheless help to slow down climate change, according to a new study.

Over time, these missions can help give scientists clues to how much carbon is being absorbed by growing forests, and how it's being released into the atmosphere through forest fires and deforestation.

Environmentally, the fires are a double whammy: They destroy trees that help to slow global warming by absorbing heat - trapping carbon dioxide as they grow.

Chloride is equally important in the human diet for it helps the blood to carry carbon dioxide, absorb potassium, improve digestion and conserves an acid - base balance in the body.

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Another Reason to Save Sea Otters: They're Helping Fight Climate Change The imperiled marine mammals preserve kelp forests, which absorb carbon from the atmosphere.

Another paper in Science recently estimated that the world's 10 billion acres of forest are now absorbing about a third of carbon emissions, helping to limit carbon dioxide levels and keep the planet cooler than it would be otherwise.

Forestry experts were dumbfounded by Mr. Rohrabacher's line of questioning, noting that the world's forests currently absorb far more carbon dioxide than they emit — capturing roughly one - third of all man - made emissions and helping mitigate climate change.

Black carbon disrupts the South Asian monsoon (by altering the land - sea temperature gradient that drives the movement of moist air), helps melt the Greenland ice sheet (by increasing the solar energy the darkened ice absorbs), and accelerates the retreat of Himalayan glaciers.

The world's forests provide a huge carbon sink, absorbing around a third of manmade carbon emissions, and helping to moderate global temperature rise.

Higher abundance of phytoplankton and krill attracts other forms of sea life and may help offset climate change by absorbing larger amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Trees help mitigate carbon emissions by absorbing carbon dioxide into their tissues as they grow.

Coastal marshes absorb and store large amounts of carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere; they help filter out pollution in coastal waters; provide habitat for wildlife; help protect coastlines from erosion and storm surge; and can store huge amounts of floodwater, reducing the threat of flooding in low - lying coastal areas.

Water vapor, methane, and carbon dioxide absorb long wave solar radiation, which helps keep the earth warm.

Europe's forests are at present helping to mitigate climate change by absorbing large quantities of carbon dioxide.

And, at least in the short term, air pollution may actually be helping to speed the growth of young, carbon - absorbing forests in -LSB-...]

Your carbon footprint is the amount of CO2 your actions generate.Photosynthesis can help by absorbing C02 from the air.

That's why WWF helps countries, like Myanmar and Belize, assess the value of their natural resources and the services they provide, such as forests that absorb carbon and provide habitat for endangered wildlife.

Forests help reduce global warming when they grow and absorb more carbon than they emit.

Fertilizing the oceans with iron to help them absorb more carbon dioxide.

At this week's climate conference in Montreal there have been a number of proposals to plant trees for the purpose of absorbing carbon emissions and helping mitigate climate change.

Since forests are — in general — agencies that absorb atmospheric carbon, and help cool the planet, any loss can only accelerate global warming and create even more difficult conditions for the surviving woodlands.