Sentences with phrase «into soil»

The group wanted her to study the land they were ranching to see if putting compost on grasslands might stimulate the landscape to siphon carbon out of the atmosphere and incorporate it into the soil.

The roots of crops and fungus in the soil would accelerate the chemical and physical breakdown of the silicate rocks and at the same time pull carbon dioxide from the air into a soil.

We can put that carbon back into the soil by following smarter farming practices.

However, instead of digging into the soil, they look for clues about our planet's climate history by studying coral reefs, digging into ocean and lake floor sediment and drilling deeply into glaciers and ice sheets.

One way is to plow legume cover crops into the soil between growing seasons.

In landfill, clothes can leach chemicals into the soil, and incineration releases CO2, toxins and pollutants into the air — even after filtration.

Dead bodies not hermetically sealed from the earth recycle their nutrients into the soil and help build new life.

Force it down into the soil where it creates an anaerobic environment.

When it's time to take down that tree, replant or recycle it to avoid the landfill and wasting the organic matter, which can be turned into soil enriching wood chips.

I can tell you without a doubt, methane and CO2 will continue to increase, as long as the unrestrained global population continues to grow, as well as our demand for food and livestock, which continues to spread nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides into the soil and the water.

We continue to innovate with new and longer - term solutions such as carbon farming which removes carbon from the atmosphere and puts it back into the soil.

The dry composting converts human fecal material into a soil - like humus, which is essentially odorless and is scarcely 10 percent of the original volume.

runoff water (from precipitation or irrigation) that does not evaporate or seep into the soil but flows into rivers, streams, or lakes, and may carry sediment

TFP Composting Toilets use urine diversion and the natural processes of decomposition and evaporation to breakdown and reduce the volume of human waste, transforming it into a soil - like compost material.

We depend, for example, on the earth's climate system for an environment hospitable to agriculture, on the hydrological cycle to provide us with fresh water, and on long - term geological processes to convert rocks into the soil that has made the earth such a biologically productive planet.

Re: the convection, I only thought it was interesting about CO2 from volcanoes staying low and going into the soil.

Changing land use and the expansion of urban areas are reducing water infiltration into the soil and increasing surface runoff.

Water was added into soil in irrigated cropland of the modern land cover run.

These substances eventually find their way into the soil where they can contaminate the local water supplies.

Agriculture is already implementing practices increasing carbon deposition into the soil, another carbon sink as opposed to source.

It also includes removing lead - based paint from the buildings and repainting them with safe paint so that more lead does not get into the soil.

If you make charcoal out of it, that would still release some CO2, of course — but the carbon that ends up as char coal is held back: Char coal does not decay that quickly (> 1000y) so if you put it into soil instead of burning it, you got THE ONLY CARBON SEQUESTRATION METHOD CURRENTLY KNOWN DOABLE.

Then, we're told, after one to five years, it's all vanished back into the soil.

A process called cryoturbation occurs with repeated thawing and freezing causing movement of the carbon deep into the soil.

How can massive amounts of carbon get into soil rapidly and remain there?

Some of ag's CO2 is emitted directly by feedlots, farm equipment, and related transportation activities; some (such as unwanted leaves, stems and the like) is recycled into the soil but still remains in the active carbon cycle; some (probably a small fraction) is transpired or excreted by humans and our commensals.

The health of forests globally is gaining attention, because trees are thought to absorb a third of all industrial carbon emissions, transferring carbon dioxide into soil and wood.

And, as pointed out above, bits of it are constantly dying and turning into soil.

If the grass is growing above, then carbon is being pumped into the soil below.

Healthy plants «can release as much as 60 to 70 percent of their total sugar production back into the soil as root exudates.

Recognizing that grasslands are a fraction of the total terrestrial biosphere, and that only a fraction of productivity is incorporated into soil organic matter annually, this results in a very large gap between a plausible expectation and the claim made in the Savory talk.

It reduces infiltration into the soil and increases runoff to conveyance systems, lakes, streams, etc..

A November ice storm then created a sheet of ice that prevented runoff from being absorbed into the soil.

And a lot of carbon being turned into soil.

Then I'd sprinkle a wide ring of wood ash all around it and rake that into the soil about an inch and then spray the ash gently with water.

Detailed soil profile measurements of greenhouse gas concentrations, soil moisture and temperature provide insights into soil processes underlying the net emissions to the atmosphere.

I asked a related question here: http://www.blogger.com/profile/07521410755553979665 ``... would higher and lower CO2 measurements in a forest, compared to a polar icecap, suggest an actual flow of CO2 going on, out of or into the soil in which the trees are growing?»

Not much reason to think the chemistry is right, either, but I have only started digging into their soil.

Otherwise you can dig your finished compost into the soil prior to planting.

Bradford's processes begin as additive (layers and layers of paper), but then turn against themselves as he assaults the work's built - up integrity, like a farmer plowing back into soil exhausted by overuse.

The project — spanning nine months — transforms copies of the book into soil, and then back into paper.

Giuseppe Penone extols touching water directly to the tongue and pressing fingertips into soil as representative of the kind of organic energy flowing through his artwork.

The illustrations look like something inspired by grisly roadkill, possibly presenting spiritual connotations of the animals» spirits rising forth in death or their bodies wilting away naturally into the soil.

Multicolored paint covered the ground and raced up across the canvases onto walls before dripping back down into the soil... As I very carefully picked my way over the uneven ground, my senses were literally on overdrive.

In her work, Jones describes a dreamlike world inhabited by winsome young girls, plants with roots pushing into the soil, insects, cats, scarecrows and sheds.

Flowers, mushrooms, and other greenery may grow depending on what seeds or bulbs have found their way into the soil.

It's not just maps though, let's dig our hands into the soil and see what other gems we get:

The premise of the episode involved Mario and Luigi foolishly trading Princess Toadstool's Royal Cow for garbanzo beans, which the Princess rejected by sneezing them out of Mario's hand and into the soil, due to her allergy.

Lichens start breaking down the rock to form the first soil followed by plants like fireweed which fix nitrogen into the soil.

Food shortages and the release of a human spirit into the soil are deemed bad omens, foreboding enough to abandon camp, usually with the shell of their former lives in tact, to find solace through the course of another transient trek.