Sentences with phrase «large amounts of carbon dioxide»

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

Growing pine trees absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

Scientists previously thought it wasn't possible to capture and store carbon this way because earlier studies suggested it could take thousands of years for large amounts of carbon dioxide to be converted to chalk.

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.

(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 Lab 6A, you learned that the ocean's biological pump sequesters large amounts of carbon dioxide in shell - building organisms that eventually die, sink and become part of deep ocean sediments for very long time scales - thousands to millions of years.

... some researchers think that by seeding the ocean with iron, we can capture large amounts of carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere.

Fossil fuel combustion for powering heaters and boilers releases large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, as does the production process of oil refining.

He notes that some researchers think that by seeding the ocean with iron, we can capture large amounts of carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere.

Researcher Michael O'Donnell, an ecologist at the University of Washington, has shown that ocean acidification, a process in which absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide lowers the pH of oceans, is weakening mussels» byssal threads.

Unexpectedly large amounts of carbon dioxide are being released into the atmosphere as the result of «feedback loops» that are speeding up natural processes.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Most deforestation is done to provide cleared land for agriculture, but the cutting down of trees and the planting of crops releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which adds to global warming, the researchers said.

Salt marshes, such as this one in the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in East Falmouth, Massachusetts, capture and store large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year.

Beyond local impacts like bad air quality and ecological issues, wildfires also emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, rather than those trees sucking carbon out of the air.

Ocean microbes produce at least fifty percent of the oxygen in our atmosphere while removing large amounts of carbon dioxide.

It is no secret that increased solar irradiance warms Earth's oceans, which then triggers the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (italics added.)

Freshwater wetlands are among Earth's most productive ecosystems, and the restoration of these environments — especially in temperate and subtropical latitudes — has the potential to offset greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide.

The study suggests this so - called «CO2 fertilization effect» may also contribute to a stabilizing feedback in the climate system as increased biomass production and organic deposition in marshes sequester larger amounts of carbon dioxide.

Ocean acidification occurs when the ocean absorbs large amounts of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.

As humans release ever - larger amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, besides warming the planet, the gas is also turning the world's oceans more acidic — at rates thought to far exceed those seen during past major extinctions of life.

They attribute it to larger amounts of carbon dioxide in the air, which causes plants to grow more efficiently.

The biggest carbon sinks are the world's oceans and forests, which absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmosphere.

When peatlands are drained to establish plantations, large amounts of carbon dioxide are released — with dramatic, long - lasting and almost irreversible effects.

The study could also shed light on how carbon is stored in the oceans as the research suggests that the phytoplankton in the polynyas could be the reason for the large amounts of carbon dioxide that is pulled from the atmosphere through photosynthesis.

When ingested, unbaked dough will expand, ferment, and release large amounts of carbon dioxide and alcohol into the bloodstream.

The industry has a terrible reputation for environmental degradation, slashing and burning tropical rainforests to make room for new plantations, draining peatlands and releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide.

The researchers said that considering the big amount of basalt formations found in North America and all over the world, this could offer a new solution in storing large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Pertinent to climate geoengineering observers, Zubrin also argued that the experiment helped to demonstrate the merits of ocean iron fertilization (OIF), concluding that «since those diatoms that were not eaten went to the bottom, a large amount of carbon dioxide was sequestered in their calcium carbonate shells.»

At the time of the event, higher - latitude temperatures were 18 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit (10 to 30 degrees Celsius) higher than today, and extensive volcanic activity had released large amounts of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere over a 700,000 - year period.

Ocean surface waters have become 30 % more acidic over the last 250 years as they have absorbed large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Along with organizations such as the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Philippines and Greenpeace Southeast Asia, we oppose these «waste to energy technologies» because they release large amounts of carbon dioxide that contribute to global warming, along with toxic chemicals that pollute the environment.