Sentences with phrase «of absorbing carbon»

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.

Instead of absorbing carbon, the model is releasing carbon due to a reduced CO2 fertilization effect in the model that outweights any climatic effects.

Phytoplankton provide food — by capturing energy from the sun — and recycle nutrients, and because they account for approximately half of all organic matter on earth they are hugely important as a means of absorbing carbon.

Not exact matches

This is far from clear: a proper carbon pricing policy would favour firms that are profitable enough to absorb the cost of GHG emissions, and penalise those who can only survive if emissions are not priced.

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.

Darin Toohey, a professor at the University of Colorado's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department and one of the paper's authors, says black carbon absorbs shortwave radiation from the sun, causing the atmosphere to heat up.

Some of the nitrogen the crops do not absorb is converted into nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Carbon - 14 is the only reasonably valid test for fossil dating, since we have an idea of the amount of carbon - 14 absorbed by living things (based on the amount of carbon - 14 in the atmosphere).

Some of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed by water in oceans and rivers.

Because as you drink your wine, the ridges on the side of the aerating wine glass absorbs oxygen and releases carbon dioxide.

Eating less meat will free up a lot of agricultural land which can revert to growing trees and other vegetation, which, in turn, will absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

They are one of the world's primary carbon reservoirs, absorbing carbon dioxide from the air, storing it, and generating oxygen.

But by stopping the destruction of mature (old - growth) forests, we prevent a huge amount of carbon from going into the atmosphere, and by promoting Earth - friendly planting and management of young forests, we absorb large amounts of atmospheric carbon.

«Our bottle is revolutionary in that it will decrease — and why not eventually see disappear — glass packaging in favour of containers of plant origin with a negative carbon footprint (the plant absorbs more carbon that is needed to produce the bottle),» says the company.

Over its lifetime, a tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide and will be a reminder of your beautiful birthing experience.

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.

Jonathan Nichols, a Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory Research Professor at Columbia University who specializes in climate science, focuses his research on whether warming temperatures will cause Arctic peat bogs to decay or expand due to improved growing conditions, a question that could alter the levels of carbon the bogs have long absorbed.

This professor discovered that if you plant myrtle, which we usually dig up as a weed, it absorbs a tremendous amount of carbon,» Goodman says.

Globally, about 32 million acres of forest is destroyed each year, mostly in the tropics and, because trees absorb carbon dioxide, deforestation is responsible for some 15 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the waste gas of power plants, typically by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.

«The effects of climate change can no longer be ignored,» the narrator in the video said, noting that warming threatens seagrass and mangroves in the Everglades, which absorb carbon.

Because these black particles absorb more heat than white snow, the study of black carbon concentrations in glaciers is important for predicting future melt rates.

A new study based on NASA satellite data and meteorological data shows that the amount of carbon absorbed by Earth's plants and trees fell in the past decade

That's according to a new study which has measured the amount of carbon absorbed by 13 different green roofs.

What is even more worrying is the possibility that regions that were absorbing carbon may emerge as sources of carbon emissions as the permafrost melts.

As the eons passed, most of the carbon dioxide was absorbed into carbonate rocks, and Earth's atmosphere, which started out 10 to 20 times as thick as it is today, gradually thinned.

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.

«Carbon - capture breakthrough: Recyclable material absorbs 82 percent of its weight in carbon dioxide.»

Oceans are taking in about 90 percent of the excess heat created by human greenhouse gas emissions, but they're also absorbing some of the carbon dioxide (CO2) itself.

The decline of sea ice spurs the process, by allowing open water to absorb carbon dioxide.

As humans emit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, more of the gas is absorbed by the oceans, gradually making the water more acidic.

How light of different colors is absorbed by carbon dioxide (CO2) can now be accurately predicted using new calculations developed by a UCL - led team of scientists.

Meanwhile, two teams are developing medical applications of nanotubes, taking advantage of the human body's ability to absorb carbon.

Materials with a surface area above 2,800 square meters per gram excelled at absorbing carbon dioxide at pressures of 30 bar, but the advantages of such high surface area diminished at lower pressures.

The sulfur - infused powder performed best, absorbing 82 percent of its weight in carbon dioxide.

Although some lakes can also absorb CO2 at their surfaces similar to the way oceans do, the increases in these other sources of organic and inorganic carbon are likely the dominant factor, says Scott Higgins, a research scientist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Experimental Lakes Area, a natural laboratory of 58 small lakes in Ontario.

Laborious research in the 1960s by the late pioneering U.S. ecologist Eugene Odum seemed to indicate that forests achieve a balance between the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed by growing trees and plants and the amount of CO2 released back into the atmosphere by the decomposition of dead plant matter.

Found along the edges of much of the world's tropical coastlines, mangroves are absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at an impressive rate.

Rice University materials scientists have created a light foam from two - dimensional sheets of hexagonal - boron nitride (h - BN) that absorbs carbon dioxide.

Biologist Sebastiaan Luyssaert of the University of Antwerp in Belgium and his colleagues surveyed all the existing measurements of how much carbon is absorbed and released from old - growth forests (exclusively in temperate and boreal forests due to a lack of extensive data on tropical forests).

In addition, the ocean has absorbed 30 percent of the carbon dioxide associated with human activities, lessening the climate effects of fossil fuel combustion.

These environments, along with other forms of coastal ecosystems such as tidal marshes and sea grasses, have been given the name «blue carbon» to differentiate them from the «green» carbon of other forests, where carbon is absorbed above ground in trees.

The quantity of human - generated carbon dioxide, in billions of tons, that the oceans have absorbed.

In the first study of its kind, scientists have calculated the amount of carbon absorbed by the world's tropical forests and the amounts of greenhouse gas emissions created by loss of trees, as a result of human activity.

Researchers estimate that if all human - related deforestation of the tropics were to stop, the forests could absorb more carbon than at present, equivalent to one - fifth of global emissions.

Although natural photosynthesis plays a vital role in absorbing and «fixing» carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuel use, it has not prevented the net increase of this gas in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

Researchers from the United Kingdom and Brazil also said the pair of droughts have raised concerns that the forest could be approaching a point where it ceases to be a carbon «sink,» absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it produces, and flips to a carbon source.

The discovery means that our understanding of the planet's carbon cycle, and the ocean's ability to absorb carbon needs to be revised.

Its two faces differ strikingly in color, likely the result of thermal segregation: Over time, darker materials (like carbon) have absorbed more heat from the sun, warming up and sending lighter, more volatile materials (like ice) to the colder hemisphere.