Sentences with phrase «large amounts of carbon»

Over the past century, human activities have released large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

The trees also store large amounts of carbon for the region.

Burning biomass for energy releases large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere all at once.

There are several reasons why having larger amounts of carbon in working fields that we can safely put into the air doesn't automatically mean no new fields can be opened.

Growing pine trees absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Moving large amounts of carbon from any source into the atmosphere on short time scales is foolish.

Burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil or natural gas produces large amounts of carbon dioxide, or CO2.

Old - growth forests are vital because they capture large amounts of carbon and provide homes to hundreds of species.

The production of cement involves a chemical reaction responsible for a surprisingly large amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere every year.

That adding large amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will change our climate?

Though relatively small in comparison to the open ocean, the coastal zones are where an extremely large amount of the carbon dioxide is exchanged between air and water.

As a result, the new model found that the increase in carbon uptake by more vegetation will be overshadowed by a much larger amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.

By adding iron to certain areas of the sea, the company can promote growth which they hope will absorb large amounts of carbon.

Consider that to grow to maturity a tree requires very large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Charcoal and gas grills produce large amounts of carbon monoxide and even small amounts can kill you.

The mangrove forest's ability to store such large amounts of carbon can be attributed, in part, to the deep organic - rich soils in which it thrives.

Recent research has also revealed unexpectedly large amounts of carbon matter accumulating in trenches, which may suggest that these regions play a significant role in Earth's climate.

Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a high conservation value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).

Report confirms that negative emission technologies (NETs) offer only «limited realistic potential» to remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and not at the scale envisaged in some climate scenarios.

Huge slabs of Arctic permafrost in northwest Canada are slumping and disintegrating, sending large amounts of carbon - rich mud and silt into streams and rivers.

(07/21/2008) Shell Oil is funding a project that seeks to test the potential of adding lime to seawater as a cost - effective way to fight global warming by sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans, reports Chemistry & Industry magazine.

In high - latitude areas like Alaska, frozen ground known as permafrost can trap large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane produced by layers of decayed plant and animal matter.

Hemp is able to sequester such large amounts of carbon because it grows very tall — between 9 and 12 feet to be exact — within a very short span of time.

We are also targeting oil and gas drilling and refining, which generate large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane — a potent climate polluter.

Another factor to consider, the Great Flood: It would have buried large amounts of carbon from living organisms.

Researchers say they have developed a new chemical process to produce large amounts of carbon nanotubes with relative ease.

Changes in permafrost could cause significant impacts — for example, by causing erosion that damages buildings, roads, or other infrastructure, by causing shifts in ecosystems, and by contributing large amounts of carbon to the atmosphere.

But volcanoes were still spewing into the atmosphere large amounts of carbon from recycled oceanic crust.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Researchers led by a Washington State University biologist have found that arid areas, among the biggest ecosystems on the planet, take up an unexpectedly large amount of carbon as levels of carbon dioxide increase in the atmosphere.

As this will be BMW's flagship luxury car, it will feature the best in driveline components and mixed material construction that will likely include large amounts of carbon fiber.

Trees can maintain large amounts of carbon dioxide for a very long time.

Though cleaner than coal, natural gas still generates unacceptably large amounts of carbon pollution, especially when the leakage of natural gas from pipelines and other infrastructure is considered.

I do know a few things about basic physics and the greenhouse effect, so dumping large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere strikes me as unwise.

Soil pumps a startlingly large amount of carbon into the air; about 10 times what's released when we burn fossil fuels.

This is because large amounts of carbon tied up in trees and other plants are released when the reservoir is initially flooded and the plants rot.

«We emit far larger amounts of carbon dioxide, but methane is significantly more potent, so it's also very destructive.»

Researchers have found that arid areas can absorb increasingly large amounts of carbon.

When they die, they sink quickly and, because they often form long chains (by budding off through asexual reproduction), take large amounts of carbon with them.

One idea for absorbing CO2 involves seeding the oceans with iron to spur plankton blooms, which inhale large amounts of carbon and then die, pulling the gas to the bottom of the sea.