Sentences with phrase «of stored carbon»

And what happens if these vast amount of stored carbon are released?

The authors warn that the density of stored carbon in tropical climates was far greater in these intact forest landscapes than in the rest of the forest zone.

The simulation provides an important approach to estimate the potential of storing carbon dioxide in depleted oil fields while simultaneously maximizing oil production.

When this pristine forest is strip - mined for tar sands development, much of its stored carbon is lost.

That is, they fear that global temperatures will exceed a tipping point that will trigger a release of stored carbon from the biosphere, an event that would cause further rapid climate change.

«We need to understand the dual role of forests of storing carbon and providing carbon to serve society's needs,» Natural Resources Canada's Kurz says.

But forests are an insecure way of storing carbon out of harm's way,» says Steffen.

One of them is obtaining insurance coverage, because insurers are concerned about the long - term financial risks of storing carbon dioxide in a gaseous or liquid form underground, which include the possibility of leakage.

The authors found that when trees are exposed to drought, not only are climate - stressed trees less likely to take in as much carbon, but when they die, they release large amounts of stored carbon into the atmosphere.

And then, a single carelessly tossed cigarette or an errant lightning strike can ignite a fire that will smoke and smolder for months, releasing thousands of years of stored carbon as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

As such, the researchers believe that coastal «blue carbon» habitats may stand alone as the most efficient biological reservoirs of stored carbon on Earth.

Today, abandoned beaver meadows contain about 736,000 metric tons of stored carbon — about 8 % of the total stored in the soils of these watersheds.

The concept of storing carbon in rock — known as geologic carbon sequestration — has been dogged by concerns about cost, stability, and environmental impact.

«Climate change, as well as human - caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and climatic tipping points that could release massive pools of stored carbon,» said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The conclusion was that the soil would «breathe» faster, which means a greater traffic in carbon, especially in those high latitude places where there was a lot of stored carbon − in particular, the Arctic permafrost.

Another natural focus of the NASA study is thawing permafrost, which, when melted, would release a mother lode of stored carbon and methane into the atmosphere.

Roughly half the dry weight of a tree is made up of stored carbon, most of which is released when the tree rots or is burned.

The venting of stored carbon led to a drop in average regional pH from the 8.3 during glacial times to a pH fluctuating between 8.1 and 8.2 during our current interglacial.

The problem is that no one knows what are the consequences of storing carbon underground.

Carbon sequestration The process of storing carbon dioxide.

Kerumutan's peat forests are a major repository of stored carbon in the soil; clearing the forest not only removes the above ground carbon sink in the form of trees and forest floor biomass, but also releases all that stored carbon as the peat dries out — it's also illegal under Indonesian law.

This is why, in terms of storing carbon, six of the top ten National Forests in the US are right here in Oregon!

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This is known to be a possibility, because such releases of stored carbon have happened in Earth's history and caused rapid non-linear Earth temperature changes.

But human activities such as deforestation and plowing have released much of the stored carbon, and «pro-pastoralists» suggest that grazing cattle can help restore grasslands and soil, sequestering massive amounts of CO2 in the process.

«We need to understand the dual role of forests of storing carbon and providing carbon to serve society's needs.

Even if we can avoid the risks of storing carbon dioxide deep in the earth, porous liquids could become important for other technological breakthroughs.

In the drive to produce more palm oil, for use in food and health products or in biodiesel, more and more forest is chopped down — in the process releasing vast amounts of stored carbon in the soil and reducing the carbon storage potential of the region, as well as destroying habitat for orangutans and other endangered species.

«Trees have a certain amount of stored carbon,» she says.

And when forests are cleared to grow bioenergy crops, sure there is plant growth that takes up carbon, but that comes at the expense of not having ongoing forest growth that does the same and after losing much of the stored carbon in the forests.

And the amount of stored carbon could increase dramatically if the nation's reforesting acreage, currently at nearly 200,000 square miles, grows.

Seagrasses have died - off in great numbers, resulting in the release of stored carbon.

The other is that there could be giant «burps», I suppose, during which huge amounts of stored carbon could escape.

But I'm sure that a first regrowth of forest to «mature old growth» 100 years or more old is going to happen on whatever little bit of topsoil remains — but those trees have to die to build more topsoil, over and over, for a MUCH longer period of time before you have anything approximating the amount of stored carbon that would have been there before the first loggers arrived.

That's what researchers are saying in a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters (via Mongabay): The reason is that as loggers move into older areas of the forest, the amount of biomass — and therefore the amount of stored carbon — is greater.

Again, that is just for North America: European and Asian Arctic regions probably hold a similar amount of stored carbon.