Sentences with phrase «improving water cycles»

Regenerative Agriculture Regenerative agriculture is a method of farming that is said to have many benefits like restoring soil, trapping greenhouse gases and improving water cycles.
Regenerated landscapes, as has been pointed out, produce less heat from sunlight through cooler surfaces, and also improves the water cycle.
There are farmers transforming landscapes and sequestering carbon, improving the water cycle and physically cooling the planet along the way.

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This increases nutrient and energy cycles and improves the soil's nutrient and water retention ability.
These data will aid in algorithm development and sensor calibration activities, improving scientists» ability to monitor and study Earth's carbon and water cycles.
The group has already begun a follow - up study, looking at sediment from Indonesia's Lake Towuti to develop data that can be used to further improve models of climate and water cycling for the region.
«For the next several decades in the U.S. the once - through fuel cycle using light - water reactors is the preferred option,» said M.I.T. physicist and report co-chair Ernest Moniz at its release on September 16 in Washington, D.C. «Light - water reactors are the workhorse, and there's a lot we can do to improve [them].»
The results so far show only a correlation between fires and water cycle indicators, but the data gathered from the study is allowing scientists to improve climate models to be able to establish a more direct relationship between biomass burning and its impacts on drought.
Benefits, which improve resilience, include improvements in soil fertility and water - use efficiency, plus disruption of weed, pest, and disease life cycles.
When conditions improve (or when the scientist restores nitrogen to the culture medium and provides light and water), the diploid zygote undergoes meiosis and releases four haploid cells that resume the vegetative life cycle.
For glimpses into a less resource - intensive future for California, you can look to the coastal county of Marin, where the Carbon Cycle Institute is teaching farmers how to conserve water by improving soil health.
Various technological advances and increased understanding about the biology of fish throughout this extensive history of fishkeeping led to a booming industry by the mid-1960s, at which point automatic filters to cycle water, improved waterproofing in tanks, and commercial fish breeding were all well - established and easily accessible through widespread pet retail stores and distributors.
Further the extra carbon in the soil also fixes the hydrodynamic so the water cycle improves.
The AWCI, a part of Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) consortium, includes 18 Asian nations and is directed at improving water resource management through better understanding of the water cycle and to tackle water - related disasters.
A workshop held at the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (Universität Hamburg, Germany) reviewed recent progress on salinity and freshwater research and included discussions of problems that must be solved to improve our understanding of future changes in the water cycle.
The need to adapt to a changing climate and eventually to mitigate climate change increasingly requires more accurate information on fluxes across the traditional domains atmosphere, ocean, land in order to improve our understanding of the major climatic cycles, carbon, water and energy.
The prototype system is also expected to reduce inefficient tankless hot water heater cycling and reduce hot water use while improving temperature control at the domestic taps.
The oxygen isotope evolution of seawater: a critical review of a long - standing controversy and an improved geological water cycle model for the past 3.4 billion years
* Make solar energy economical * Provide energy from fusion * Develop carbon sequestration methods * Manage the nitrogen cycle * Provide access to clean water * Restore and improve urban infrastructure * Advance health informatics * Engineer better medicines * Reverse - engineer the brain * Prevent nuclear terror * Secure cyberspace * Enhance virtual reality * Advance personalized learning * Engineer the tools of scientific discovery
Scientists» understanding of the fundamental processes responsible for global climate change has greatly improved during the last decade, including better representation of carbon, water, and other biogeochemical cycles in climate models.
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