Sentences with phrase «several air plants»

I decided to use it to host several air plants and add some interest to an empty wall.

Not exact matches

Scientists climbed several rare and endangered tree species on Penang Hill to document the orchids, ferns, and epiphytes (or air plants) thriving at such heights and to press leaf samples for further study.

In fact, says Helliker, infrared imaging of trees has already shown that their leaves can be warmer than the surrounding air by several degrees, as was reported last year by Christian Körner, a plant ecologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

At the same time, meteorologists noted several layers of smoke - filled air over the region that could be tracked back to fires set to clear agricultural lands for spring planting in eastern Mexico and Central America.

Power plants are, in fact, regulated under several sections of the Clean Air Act, other observers note.

The retrofitting program could cost Ford Motor Co. several million dollars.The automaker has been producing Continentals and Town Cars without passenger - side air bags since March.A fire at Sabag Inc.'s Canadian plant in March curtailed shipments of propellant to Ford's chief air - bag supplier, TRW Inc., which manufactures the passenger - side air - bag modules for both cars.

Kusama has completed several major outdoor commissions, some giant pumpkins and other sculptures in the form of brightly coloured grotesque plants and flowers, for public and private institutions including the Kirishima Open Air Musuem, Japan; Fukuoka Municipal Museum of Art and Matsumoto City Museum of Art in Japan; Eurolille in Lille, France; and recently, the Beverly Hills City Council in Los Angeles.

To put a specific point on it, EPA's top air regulator, Gina McCarthy, told utility regulators Nov. 13 that it would be «at least several years» before EPA addressed a top priority of environmentalists: carbon emission standards for existing coal - fired power plants.

In Illinois, our Governor (who is otherwise awful) got an agreement to shut down several old coal plants as part of an overall air quality arrangement.

Burning all fossil fuels, if the CO2 is released into the air, would destroy creation, the planet with its animal and plant life as it has existed for the past several thousand years, the time of civilization, the Holocene, the period of relative climate stability, warm enough to keep ice sheets off North America and Eurasia, but cool enough to maintain Antarctic and Greenland ice, and thus a stable sea level.

Designed by a team from Air Quality Solutions Ltd. the biowall is composed of several varieties of native and exotic indoor flowering plants that are snuggled into their own individual pockets in a blanket of special planting material that allows water to filter through the plant roots.

Several recent studies have used simulation models to quantify the potential effects of recent environmental regulations on power plants, including the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), one of the US Environmental Protection Agency's most expensive regulations.

«Any one of the several new or likely regulatory initiatives for CO2 emissions from power plants — including state carbon controls, E.P.A.'s regulations under the Clean Air Act, or the enactment of federal global warming legislation — would add a significant cost to carbon - intensive coal generation,» the letters said... Selective disclosure of favorable information or omission of unfavorable information concerning climate change is misleading.

In 1989, the NASA Clean Air Study found that several common indoor plants could naturally remove toxic agents from the air (such as benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene) while also neutralizing sick building syndroAir Study found that several common indoor plants could naturally remove toxic agents from the air (such as benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene) while also neutralizing sick building syndroair (such as benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene) while also neutralizing sick building syndrome.