Sentences with phrase «removed by photosynthesis»

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Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's carbon cycle by removing half of all CO2 from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and storing it deep under the sea — isolated from the atmosphere for centuries.

For this reason methanol fuel cells will be used, where the combination of methanol and oxygen produces water and carbon dioxide as a waste product (note that the carbon footprint in this case is neutral in that the methanol will be produced by photosynthesis, removing CO2 from the atmosphere).

The nanoceria then seemed to help remove some of the oxygen created by the process of photosynthesis that often ends up wrecking the cellular machinery.

Only when we know when and where certain nutrients are available for plankton growth we can also estimate how much carbon the plankton can bind by photosynthesis and thus remove from the atmosphere.»

Soil provides an abundant, readily available storage option — one designed by nature to hold carbon removed from air by plant photosynthesis.

However, the carbon you exhale into the atmosphere was recently removed from the atmosphere by plants during photosynthesis, yielding a net change of zero.

Carbon dioxide has constantly been removed from the atmosphere by precipitation and photosynthesis.

When photosynthesis intensifies, plants remove more carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuels from the atmosphere.

This indicates that replacing missing iron back into the ocean could stimulate phytoplankton based photosynthesis and generate improvements to the ocean ecosystem, while removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it is consumed by photosynthesis.

CO2 is removed from the atmosphere by plant photosynthesis (123 ± 8 PgC / year).

«Two processes remove CO2 from the atmosphere: photosynthesis by land plants and marine organisms, and dissolution in the oceans.»

Breathing or wood burning doesn't add extra CO2 to the atmosphere, because what we breath or use as firewood was removed as CO2 from the atmosphere months to years before by photosynthesis... In contrast, fossil fuels were removed from the atmosphere many millions of years ago and now it is one - way addition...

The cost for carbon sequestration with wood burial is low because CO2 is removed from the atmosphere by the natural process of photosynthesis at little cost.

The main natural sinks are the oceans and plants and other organisms that use photosynthesis to remove carbon from the atmosphere by incorporating it into biomass.

[33] This figure accounts for CO2 molecules being removed from the atmosphere by mixing into the ocean, photosynthesis, and other processes.

Young growing forests are vitally important for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by photosynthesis.