Sentences with phrase «plants on land»

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

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.

By definition, leaves grow on plants on land.

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

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.

The ash will stimulate plants on the land to sequester more CO2 and with phytoplankton able to double in population every day how many days does it take a significant volcanic fertilisation of the oceans to sequester most all the available CO2?

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.

On Earth, photosynthetic plants on land tends to use relatively abundant red and more energetic blue light (more).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.»

«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.»

And putting the plant on land would be far cheaper than in a ship at sea.

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

Expansion of oil palm, which is largely planted on lands that have been logged or burned, threatens the remaining forests.

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.

Not exact matches

Before 2009, there were no solar farms and only a handful of wind and geothermal plants on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Vincor has invested more than $ 40 million in vineyards, equipment and plant operations on the band's land.

The agreement would allow the purchase or lease of land that will enable the Haisla to work with the industry to develop both the plant and an export terminal on Douglas Channel.

From there, they landed on the idea of using plants to replace eggs.

Strobel is in talks with the federal government to open a processing plant on Department of Fisheries and Oceans land, and has already tapped back into the SheEO network for more investments.

The sale does not include the land in Haifa Bay near the Kishon River on which Gadot Biochemicals» plant is located.

or life in the seas before plant life on land?

Christian 7: Then God said, «Let the land produce vegetation: seed - bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.»

The sharecropper would clear and farm the land and leave it planted with grass before moving on in search of more land; the campesino's function from the sixties on, then, basically has been that of «increasing the value of land that will later be occupied by the big cattlemen» (Slutsky, 100).

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

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...?

Caused plants to grow on the land (self explanatory) 6.

The explorer, he said, «landed (armed to the teeth and speaking by signs) to plant the British flag on that barbaric temple which turned out to be the pavilion at Brighton.»

Religion News Service: Religious groups vie for Internet domain names Religious groups have long vied for prime parcels of land, planting churches on town squares and monasteries amid isolated mountains.

So you think that birds showed up on the earth before land animals, fruit (flowering plants) before land animals, and «morning» and «evening» before the sun?

If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7

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.

Now Spaniards conquered a large portion of the Americas, including the West Indies and the Philippines, and became the ruling classes in these lands; the Portuguese established themselves in a similar position in Brazil and sprinkled themselves along the coasts of Africa and here and there on the shores of India, in the East Indies and in Malacca and Macao; the French planted colonies in parts of North America and the West Indies; the Dutch, with an intermingling of French Huguenots, began a permanent colony in South Africa, and Dutch.

In 24 hours on July 11, more than 80,000 volunteers planted 49.3 million tree saplings throughout Northern India on public land and along roads and railways.

Of all the plant material produced on land each year in the world, humans use 40 per cent.

7) green plant life appears on land (3rd day) Primitive plant forms colonize the dry land.

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.

Now starting form verse 7 of chapter 2 God describes how he created man and then on verse 8 GOD plants a garden (Eden) in earth and THIS IS IMPORTANT — God puts man in the garden that he creates and not outside the garden (which is the remaining dry land).

Cox is a research coordinator and senior scientist at The Land Institute where he focuses on sorghum, a genus of plants in the grass family.

He judges by looks as well as flavor, planting his most beautiful discoveries on two acres of land by his house in Napa.

In addition to the Bethel Township plant, the company also plans to build another facility on a 113 acre land in Fredericksburg that can produce up to three million chickens a week.

The new plant is located on a 200 acre site of agricultural and industrial land.

The plans to expand an existing dairy on Loch - Kernot Road include the construction of a bottling plant, storage facility, a feed - pad barn to house 1,000 dairy cows, and an effluent treatment plant on prime agricultural land.