Famously wet tropical forests, such as those in the Amazon, go up in flames, destroying the world's richest wildlife habitats and
releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide to speed global warming.
Hundreds of millions of cars around the planet are
releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day, causing ocean acidification and global warming.
Not exact matches
According to the accepted view, the formation
of the Earth
released vast amounts of water vapour and
carbon dioxide, which formed a thick atmosphere and caused strong greenhouse warming at a time when the Sun was 15 to 20 per cent fainter than today.
Starting in 1981, the company delayed the development
of the massive Natuna natural gas field in the South China Sea because
of the
vast amounts of carbon dioxide it believed it would
release.