Sentences with phrase «oxide emissions from»

Coal Pollution is US» Single - Deadliest Form of Industrial Air Pollution Even with much decreased numbers, the report says sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal power plants will «continue to take a significant toll on the health and longevity of millions of Americans.»

The team looked at the impact of EU policies for renewable energy, landfill gas, nitrous oxide emissions from industry, combined heat - power generation (CHP), efficiency improvements in the built environment, common agricultural policies, F - gases, passenger cars, and efficiency improvements and fuel switch in industry and the energy sector.

Even with much decreased numbers, the report says sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal power plants will «continue to take a significant toll on the health and longevity of millions of Americans.»

Likewise, nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture mainly occur in a few crops and a few concentrated regions.

Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture and other human activities add to the atmospheric burden of heat - trapping gases.

The DC Circuit today struck down EPA's Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), the EPA's latest attempt to regulate sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants, using at least somewhat flexible, market - based tools.

Maintaining rice production while mitigating methane and nitrous oxide emissions from paddy fields in China: Evaluating tradeoffs by using coupled agricultural systems models.

In order of reduction, they call for controlling nitrogen oxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels using «maximum feasible reductions,» which could reduce reactive nitrogen emissions by 55 billion pounds of a year; increasing the efficiency of fertilizing crops (33 billion pounds a year); improved animal management policies (33 billion pounds); and ensuring that at least half the world's urban population has sewage treatment (11 billion pounds).

Ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel has 99.5 percent less sulfur — and is now produced for all highway and non-road uses, allowing for dramatically reduced nitrogen oxide emissions from newer diesel engines.

China's nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer application are the highest of any country, accounting for nearly a third of the world's total.

It is known that various chemical additives (e.g., nitrapyrin or coated calcium carbide) can suppress nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen - fertilized crop production systems.

TranAlta asked us to determine the current status of knowledge about nitrous oxide emissions from zero tillage systems.

The early results which found higher levels of nitrous oxide emissions from zero till all seem to have employed surface application of N fertilizer.

This review would include determining how these nitrous oxide emissions from zero tillage systems compared with those from conventional tillage, and identifing gaps in knowledge requiring further experiments and studies.

A recent Canadian study of the nation - wide emissions of greenhouse gases from agricultural activities used nitrous oxide emissions factors which indicated that nitrous oxide emissions from anhydrous ammonia and ammonium phosphate were from four to five times as high as those from urea or ammonium nitrate.

This increase in N fertilizer use would be expected to increase nitrous oxide emissions from soils, reducing the net GHG sequestering benefit of the increase in soil organic matter.

Many previous studies in western Canada on nitrous oxide emissions from zero till systems (all with surface application of N fertilizer) measured only growing season emissions.

These experiments would compare nitrous oxide emissions from pulse crops such as peas and lentils with nitrous oxide emissions from cereals such as wheat and barley.

The effect of the pulse crop on the nitrous oxide emissions from a following cereal should also be measured, since it is known that nitrogen fertilizer requirements of wheat and barley are reduced if they follow a pulse crop in the rotation.

No examples of measurement of nitrous oxide emissions from deep banded nitrogen (N) fertilizer have been found to date for western Canada.

However, some early studies indicated that nitrous oxide emissions from the soil could increase with zero tillage.

We could not find any studies in western Canada which compared - nitrous oxide emissions from pulse crops such as lentils, peas or chick peas, with nitrous oxide emissions from cereals such as spring wheat.

Even if such a BECCS - project was to actually sequester a billion tonnes of carbon a year, the authors point out that the nitrous oxide emissions from the extra fertilizer use alone would, over the course of a century «offset» 75 - 310 % of that sequestered CO2.

The 300 plants produce one - quarter of all the electricity generated in the EU but are responsible for more than 70 % of the EU's sulphur dioxide emissions and more than 40 % of nitrogen oxide emissions from the power sector.

Nitrous oxide emissions from a municipal landfill.

Many of his mistakes are big ones: he bungles the issues involving reserves and resources that are critical to his core argument about oil remaining cheap; he drastically misleads his readers about the extent to which sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal - burning have been reduced; he trivializes the climate - change risks from coals carbon dioxide emissions by suggesting we know the impacts will be worth only 0.64 cents per kilowatt - hour.

New research explores the source of unexpectedly high nitrous oxide emissions from such bare peat soils in Arctic tundra.

«Scientists uncover isotopic fingerprint of nitrous oxide emissions from Arctic tundra.»

This suggests, he says, that nitrogen oxide emissions from transport and industry are increasing more rapidly than ammonia emissions from agriculture.

Historically, such emissions have included methane emissions from wetlands and nitrous oxide emissions from soil.

The earthworm invasion of North America is increasing carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions from the soil.

And I'm going to see another technology in the U.S. that reduces nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel trucks by up to 50 % while preserving horsepower.

Simply put, limiting sulphur oxides emissions from ships reduces air pollution and results in a cleaner environment.

Not exact matches

Switching from coal to natural gas would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 60 percent.

In addition, eliminating synthetic pesticides and fertilizers in regenerative organic agricultural systems directly reduce GHG emissions that normally come from creating these synthetics and from higher methane and nitrous oxide emissions due to management.

Reduction of non-carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrialized agriculture systems, such as methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O)

Most farm - related emissions come in the form of methane (cattle belching) and nitrous oxide (from fertilizers and the like).

Manufacturing GHG emissions are primarily carbon dioxide, with significantly less contribution from methane and nitrous oxide.

A group of projects that reduce emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O)-- a particularly potent greenhouse gas — from fertiliser production plants in China.

And a Nobel - prize winning chemist has publicized his findings that biofuels made from nitrogen - thirsty plants (like corn and canola) actually produce a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions, because they release nitrous oxide during their production.

The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, brings together dozens of studies from across the globe that analyzed how nitrous oxide emissions increased based on different rates of fertilizer application.

EMISSIONS of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from shipping in the English Channel are «almost equivalent to those of Denmark», according to a study of marine pollution by Lloyd's Register.

They found surprisingly, that human - induced emissions of methane and nitrous oxide from ecosystems overwhelmingly surpass the ability of the land to soak up carbon dioxide emissions, which makes the terrestrial biosphere a contributor to climate change.

«Indirect» emissions often refer to gases released far from the source, like nitrous oxide that is emitted downstream from the fertilizer from which it originates.

Biochar could reduce local air pollution from agriculture by reducing emissions of nitric oxide from soil, according to Rice University researchers.

Thus, methane emissions in this region are largely from rice cultivation and livestock, while human - made fertilizers are a major source of nitrous oxide.

The precursors of acid rain formation result from both natural sources, such as volcanoes and decaying vegetation, and human - made sources, primarily emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide resulting from fossil fuel combustion.

Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer use.

The process generates copious amounts of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide, while the output of methane — another potent greenhouse gas — from cattle is estimated to generate some 20 percent of overall U.S. methane emissions.

«A global assessment of marine nitrous oxide emissions is, however, difficult because we do not know exactly where and how much nitrous oxide is produced,» says marine chemist Damian L. Arévalo - Martínez from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.