Sentences with phrase «organic carbon trapped»

«There's so much organic carbon trapped in permafrost,» she said, «and we don't really know what's going to happen as the climate warms.»

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In 2002 M.I.T. researchers determined that microbes digesting organic carbon were freeing that trapped arsenic.

The latter focuses on zeolites and metal — organic frameworks: sponge - like materials with regularly repeating holes in their crystal structures that can trap gas molecules and could be used to store methane or carbon dioxide.

One of the byproducts of that soil system was clay, which eroded down to the sea, trapped organic carbon and thus freed oxygen to percolate into the atmosphere.

Geologist Martin Kennedy and his colleagues from the University of California, Riverside realized that clay minerals in marine sediments are responsible for trapping the organic carbon that would otherwise bond with highly reactive oxygen.

Ancient organic matter trapped in rock might have been destroyed by water flowing through the rock, which would have split apart the organic molecules and produced carbon dioxide gas.

Permafrost is frozen soil that has been at a temperature of below 0ºC for at least two years, trapping large amounts of carbon that is stored in organic matter held in the soil.

The research, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that the significant boost in marsh plant productivity associated with elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide will allow marshes to trap more sediment and create more organic soil.

In fact, if we continue on our current path of high heat - trapping emissions, the region is projected to see forest fires during June and July at two to three times its current rate.2, 6 Some 1 billion metric tons of organic matter and older - growth trees could burn7, 15 — accelerating the release of stored carbon and creating a dangerous global warming amplification or feedback loop.5, 14

It amazes me that JERRYD and GERM KILLER have no understanding of what happens with the massive ever - expanding messes of organic wastes and sewage that we allow to undergo natural biodegrading to be reemitting trapped carbon dioxide and some other GHGs.

Buesseler examines the processes by which heat - trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is converted in the ocean to organic carbon that ends up trapped thousands of feet below the surface.

Why fiddle around with carbon trading when we could be doing carbon removal from our biosphere by using the pyrolysis process on the massive ever - expanding messes of organic wastes and sewage solids that present handling procedures allow to naturally biodegrade to reemit carbon dioxide that nature trapped in biochemicals.

Hence all the work now going into designing «particulate traps» for the microscopic particles of carbon and other organic matter found in a diesel exhaust.