Sentences with phrase «plant on land»

Secondly, about half of the CO2 we release into the atmosphere is absorbed either by plants on land or into the ocean and tightening up those numbers is really important.

By definition, leaves grow on plants on land.

Reliable evidence shows that increased CO2 will increase the productivity of marine life just as it is improving the growth of plants on land.

Such a bloom sucks up CO2 as it grows, like plants on land, and then, potentially, buries that carbon at sea as the tiny corpses sink to the bottom.

Oxygen enters the ocean through two ways: interactions between its surface and the atmosphere, and as a photosynthesis byproduct from phytoplankton in upper layers of the ocean, much in the same way plants on land produce oxygen.

Meanwhile, collaborators Dave Keeling and Stephen Piper of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, charted annual variations in atmospheric CO2 stored or released by tropical plants on land.

They also combined their exploitation of maritime economy with growing crops like chili pepper, squash, avocado and some form of a medicinal plant on land in a way that produced a large economic surplus.

«These rarer species could be helped by targeting planting on land near existing colonies and improving the plant quality of existing buffer strips and hedgerows.»

Beasley describes the personal nature of his work, the intricacies of analog sound, how a pair of abandoned Air Force 1s inspired his mixed media work «Jumped Man» 2014, and his emotional reaction to discovering a cotton crop planted on the land surrounding the rural Virginia home that has been in his family for generations and serves as a gathering place.

A biofuel plant's ability to grow on marginal land does not mean it will not be grown on good soil if it is more profitable than the alternative; even planting on land that is marginal or was not previously used for agriculture can have negative consequences, e.g., the increased deforestation in Asia related to the creation of palm oil plantations for biofuels.

When he was 8 years old, the government seized the family's farm with plans to build a wastewater treatment plant on the land.

The Haisla have also formed a tripartite partnership in the Kitimat Liquid Natural Gas plant on land the Haisla held, which recently obtained a permit to export held by Encana Corp., Apache Corp., and EOG Resources Inc. «That could be a $ 5 - billion to $ 7 - billion project that we will hear about later this spring as to whether it will go forward,» says Greg D'Avignon, president and chief executive officer of the Business Council of British Columbia.

Like plants on land, phytoplankton produce energy by photosynthesis, pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fuel the process.

But human greenhouse gas pollution looks set to continue to rise — and photosynthetic plants on land or at sea can only do so much.

Right now, one thing that not a lot of people know is that 50 % of human emissions get absorbed by plants on the land and the oceans and that's been a really valuable resource in limiting climate change to the effects we're seeing today.

A new monoculture of «Gros Michel» planted on land that was formerly covered in dense rainforest (Fig. 9, pg.

The girls have a tree house and know almost all the names of the plants on our land.

And some Indian farmers in the state of Bihar have begun to plant hybrid rice strains because they are drought - tolerant and can be planted on lands that were previously difficult to successfully cultivate.

In other words, a quarter of everything produced by all plants on land is eaten or otherwise consumed by us.

Today spore - bearing plants make up only 3 percent of all plants on land.

Between 1939 and 1940, in his shack journals Leopold noted the effects of deer herbivory on herbaceous plants (plants whose leaves and stems die down to soil level at the end of the growing season) and trees he had planted on his land, which included oaks (Quercus spp.) and aspens (Populus tremuloides).

«It's entirely likely that as much as 500,000 acres of land in California will be left unplanted this year because there just won't be enough water to sustain the crops that would have been planted on that land.»

So I think, around the carbon budgets, a question that I would like to see more clarity on is whether land - based vegetation will continue to absorb carbon dioxide at the rate it currently is, or whether in a future climate, that drawdown of carbon by plants on land will change.

Marine algae, like plants on land, must have a source of nitrogen to build the tissue that larger animals eat and digest.

The ocean and plants on land are working extra hard to absorb some of this excess, but they can't take it all.

Later on palms or other crops may be planted on the land, but the criminals are the loggers.

Plants on land and the oceans absorb CO2, reducing the amount of warming we experience.