Sentences with phrase «store large amounts of carbon»

Coastal marshes absorb and store large amounts of carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere; they help filter out pollution in coastal waters; provide habitat for wildlife; help protect coastlines from erosion and storm surge; and can store huge amounts of floodwater, reducing the threat of flooding in low - lying coastal areas.

Otters might also offer a defense against climate change because healthy kelp forests can grow rapidly and store large amounts of carbon.

Salt marshes, such as this one in the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in East Falmouth, Massachusetts, capture and store large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year.

Seagrass meadows are able to store large amounts of carbon but historically they have been virtually ignored in global carbon budgets.

The trees also store large amounts of carbon for the region.

During the Earth's ice ages the Pacific Ocean stored large amounts of carbon, which for some reason it released again close to the last glacial period's end, warming the world and melting most of the icecaps.

In many cases, they use an empty field as their starting point, ignoring the fact that to set up a cedar farm you may have to raze a stand of enormous trees that would otherwise have stored large amounts of carbon for decades.

The terrestrial biosphere stores a large amount of carbon, and is critical for the provision of food, fuel, and fiber, as well as for climate mitigation.

By characterizing atmospheric gas mixing ratios (volume of gas per volume of air) across the North Slope, scientists hope to improve the estimates of the volume of gases like carbon dioxide and methane being emitted from biological sources such as Alaska's permafrost layer which stores large amounts of carbon.

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The authors found that when trees are exposed to drought, not only are climate - stressed trees less likely to take in as much carbon, but when they die, they release large amounts of stored carbon into the atmosphere.

The world's coastal ecosystems — areas such as tidal marshes and mangrove forests — have the potential to store and sequester large amounts of carbon, collectively known as blue carbon.

Soils are the largest land - based reservoir of organic carbon on the planet, storing around 1,500 billion metric tons of organic carbon — about twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

Scientists previously thought it wasn't possible to capture and store carbon this way because earlier studies suggested it could take thousands of years for large amounts of carbon dioxide to be converted to chalk.

The zoobenthos that inhabit the shelves may be tiny, but multiplied across such a large area, the amount of carbon they can store is considerable.

In Hot dry conditions in Indonesia during the period led to an increase in fires, including a large peat fire that burned huge amounts of stored carbon.

There is wide agreement among scientists that inadequate funds are going to basic research in such fields as capturing carbon dioxide from smokestacks or the atmosphere, advancing photovoltaic cells and other solar power systems, finding ways to store large amounts of electricity from intermittent sources like wind or the sun, and making nuclear power more secure.

«The larger estimate is due to the inclusion of processes missing from current models and new estimates of the amount of organic carbon stored deep in frozen soils,» co-author Benjamin Abbott, a University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student, explained in a press release.

Take, for instance, large - scale bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), a geoengineering technology that generates power by growing significant amounts of biomass, burning it, and then storing the carbon underground.

Areas that store large amounts of biomass carbon overlap with areas of importance for biodiversity.

Permafrost is frozen soil that has been at a temperature of below 0ºC for at least two years, trapping large amounts of carbon that is stored in organic matter held in the soil.

Science (e.g. Lal 2016) suggests that large amounts of carbon can be stored in soils and vegetation by restoring soil organics in agricultural land and environments.

(6/3/2007) The Amazon basin is home to the world's largest rainforest, an ecosystem that supports perhaps 30 percent of the world's terrestrial species, stores vast amounts of carbon, and exerts considerable influence on global weather patterns and climate.

As the mortality rate increased, the basal area - the cross-sectional area at a height of 1.3 m of all trees larger than 10 cm in diameter, and an indicator of the amount of carbon stored - decreased.

Large amounts of carbon stored in forests can quickly be released as a result of forest fires, logging or disease.

The mangrove forest's ability to store such large amounts of carbon can be attributed, in part, to the deep organic - rich soils in which it thrives.

Around the turn of the twenty - first century, these disturbances released large amounts of carbon to the atmosphere, possibly transforming Canada's boreal forests from a carbon sink, pulling carbon dioxide from the air and storing it, to a carbon source.