Sentences with phrase «plant life on earth»

Also, to raise the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere from.04 % to.05 % one would have to burn 1 Trillion metric tons of carbon and require that all plant life on Earth cease photosynthesis.

Prof Salby points out that while fossil fuels are richer in C12 than the atmosphere, so too is plant life on Earth, and there isn't a lot of difference (just 2.6 %) in the ratios of C13 to C12 in plants versus fossil fuels.

Report: Global Plant Productivity / Net Primary Production = plant life on earth.

That trace gas, after all, is responsible for all plant life on Earth.

It is home to one - sixth of all plant life on Earth on just one percent of the planet's landmass.

CO2 has beneficially enabled life on Earth CO2 has boosted plant life on Earth CO2 Kills!

In the distant future, all forest and plant life on Earth has become extinct, and the last surviving forests are housed in vast biodomes aboard cargo ships orbiting Saturn.

So if this study holds up, plants may be considered a forcing if long - term carbon storage doesn't offset their methane production, and there's an overall increase in plant life on Earth?

In visible light, the abundance of greenish plant life on Earth's land surfaces can be easily observed from space.

Amborella trichopoda is understood to be the most basal extant flowering plant and its genome is anticipated to provide insights into the evolution of plant life on Earth (see the Perspective by Adams).

So plant life on earth began with light filtering through the clouds.

Not exact matches

When it comes to terraforming, to sustain a humanlike life you need an atmosphere that contains enough oxygen and an ecosystem that recycles it (i.e. soil, plants and water) like on Earth.

all land plants would be damaged or destroyed, temperatures [would] plummet for several months,... All biological life on planet earth would be gravely threatened» (p. 7) We hold the powers of life and death within our hands, declare the bishops.

This story will go on for ever until the date life ends on Earth... this ever lasting conflict was planted there because ever since it started it created jobs for war arms manufacturers, it has created good business revenue for war and arms lords, made a good business for those con - fis - cat - ing Palestinians lands & olive trees, turning them in to residential areas for imported Jews, gradually removing Palestinians of all faiths further out of range every time...?

To sustain a humanlike life you need an atmosphere that contains enough oxygen and an ecosystem that recycles it — i.e. soil, plants and water — like what we have here on Earth, for starters.

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

If feels that already the One Eyed «Dijjal» is around corrupting life and environment on plant Earth... all we await now is the return of Jesus and Al Muhdi to clean the ty - ra - nny and the filth that has over grown on earth... Earth... all we await now is the return of Jesus and Al Muhdi to clean the ty - ra - nny and the filth that has over grown on earth... earth... Amen.

To properly carry out our God - given function on this earth, we must learn how to properly live in this earth, with each other and with the plants and animals, and rule them as God rules us.

That makes the plant more than 7000 years older than Noah's flood, which supposedly destroyed all life on earth save for that which was in the magic TARDIS boat.

Plants are appropriately treated primarily as means and, of course, critically important ones for life on earth.

Even though it flatly contradicts astronomy, geology and biology, Morris attempts to defend a literal reading of his textbook on the facts of nature: «The Bible teaches that the earth existed before the stars, that it was initially covered by water, that plant life preceded the sun, that the first animals created were the whales, that birds were made before insects, that man was made before woman.»

Additionally, the horror would include catastrophic biological aftereffects from probable destruction of the ozone layer and a nuclear winter likely to end all plant and animal life on earth.

The writer seems to be saying that animal life, whether on land or in the sea, is more marvelous than mere plant life, and, although issuing from the womb of the earth and from the waters, required a special operation of God to bring it about.

«While heme is exceptionally abundant in meat, it is a basic molecular building block of life on earth, including plants,» Impossible Foods said.

In 2004, Looy and her former Ph.D. advisor Henk Visscher proposed one way this might have played out, bases on fossilized abnormal plant spores found worldwide: volcanic gases — halocarbons like methyl chloride and methyl bromide — destroyed much or all of Earth's ozone layer, boosting UV - B exposure that would have affected life and potentially increased the genetic mutation rates in pollen and spores of plants worldwide.

However, although they look somewhat like plants, scientists believe that they may have been some of the earliest animals to live on Earth.

If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler - 186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red - wavelength photons, making for a color palette that's very different than the greens on Earth.

That means the moon's rocks have been picking up small amounts of oxygen from living things on Earth; the moon is «contaminated» with the waste products of plants, the researchers said.

If there's anything Conley's education — culminating with a Ph.D. in plant biology — proved to her, it was the tremendous range of life on Earth.

Crowdfunding a genome Pryer worried that because no fern genome had ever been sequenced, what might be learned about these ancient plants — some of the oldest known vegetative of life forms on Earth — was highly limited.

From termites to blue whales, virtually all life on Earth depends on plants» ability to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into food — and without the waste product, oxygen, you would be dead in minutes.

Nearly all life on Earth depends on the ability of plants to convert light into chemical energy.

(Ill - fitting because humans have been indirectly, and much less precisely, modifying plant and animal genomes for thousands of years via selective breeding, and evolution has been doing it for as long as there has been life on Earth.)

The genome sequence sheds new light on a major event in the history of life on Earth: the origin of flowering plants, including all major food crop species.

Scientists think plant cells living in space do not behave the same way as cells in plants on Earth, and the experiments will examine these changes on a molecular level.

And while carbon dioxide is crucial for plant life, the carbon balance on Earth is a delicate cycle, with oceans and land able to absorb only so much CO2.

Around the world, beautiful iconic animals like Amur tigers or Javan rhinos are at risk of disappearing, as well as tens of thousands plants and smaller creatures that are the foundation of all life on earth.

Professor Colin Osborne, lead author of the study and Associate Director of the University's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, said: «Photosynthesis powers most life on Earth because it converts solar energy into sugars which are used by plants to grow.

«Almost all life on Earth is based on plants — animals eat plants and we eat animals or plants,» says Wolfgang Busch, an associate professor in Salk's Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory and senior author of the new paper.

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

We are beginning to unlock a process which is taking us back to the first stages of plant life on land some 450 million years ago, one of the key evolutionary steps of life on planet Earth,» she said.

The ozone layer acts as Earth's sunscreen by absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation from incoming sunlight that can cause skin cancer and damage plants, among other harmful effects to life on Earth.

Star A's late spectral type and dim luminosity puts it possibly close to the lower limit of habitability for (multicellular) Earth - type plant and animal life, given the redness of its light and the increased risk of tidal locking from the closeness of the orbit necessary for liquid water on a planetary surface.

If comparatively more bluish or reddish light reaches a planet's surface than on Earth, photosynthetic plant - type life may may not be greenish in color, because such life will have evolved to different pigments in order to optimize their use of available and so color the appearance of the planet's land surfaces accordingly.

How long did it take before large plants and animals evolved on Earth and adapted to life on land?

After over three billion years of evolution in the oceans, multi-cellular life — beginning with green algae, fungi, and plants (liverworts, mosses, ferns, then vascular and flowering plants)-- began adapting to land habitats by creating a new «hypersea,» and adding anomalous shades of green to Earth's coloration more than 472 million years ago (Matt Walker, BBC News, October 12, 2010; and Qiu et al, 1998 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

As proposed by Andrew Goldsworthy in 1987, cyanobacteria and later chloroplast - related protists and plants developed after microbes that used a purple pigment bacteriorhodopsin that absorbs green light dominated the oceans, and so the new photosynthetic cyanobacteria were forced to use the left - over light with chlorophyll that reflects green light, which was too complex to change even after purple - reflecting photosynthetic lifeforms were no longer dominant (Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist, September 10, 2010 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

Up until the»70s, the prevailing theory was that all life on Earth was dependent on energy from the Sun (i.e. everything ultimately revolves around photosynthesizing plants).

His biotechnology - based conservation program aims to develop an interdisciplinary platform for research, education, and service to prevent the loss of plant species valuable to life on earth.

Even if all the plants on Earth were to die, people would remain resourceful — especially if their lives depended on it.