Sentences with phrase «than forests»

Not only that, but some research suggests they store more carbon than forests.

You do of course need to go somewhere where there's actually sun, so pick a sunny field rather than a forest.

We can all agree that rain is better than forest fires, so I'm thankful we've had a good amount this year.

I swear, sometimes the city streets are worse than forest trails.

However, this would imply that urban songs generally had fewer notes than forest songs, which was not the case.

These lamps are supposedly «more powerful than a forest» when it comes to removing atmospheric carbon.

When the bonnet arrived it was more of a Kelly green than the forest green I needed.

Partly, this is because a field planted entirely in edible crops lets one feed far more mouths than a forest with scattered edible plants.

Tropical forests not only provide oxygen for us to breathe, but also take CO2 out of the atmosphere and store much more carbon than forests in temperate regions (like those in the United States).

Without good governance and a focus on protecting intact natural forests rather than the forest industry, any climate agreement has little chance of addressing the nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions that stem from the destruction of tropical forests.

(Scientists believe that when trees are cut down, the bare surfaces left behind absorb more heat than the forest they replaced.

Based on our statistics, homes in the Englemount - Lawrence area were priced 40 % lower than Forest Hill, on average, but with similar access to schools, shopping and transit.

The remaining REDD - related tasks for climate negotiators at the COPs mostly involve aspects broader than the forest community.

It's fair to say the oilpatch in 2015 is more enlightened than the forest industry was in 1995, when the language around sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) hadn't been invented yet, says Coady.

And Bowers getting experience was more paramount than Forest.

These underwater ecosystems, Darwin believed, could be even more important than forests on land.

And a changing climate may prove more amenable to grassland than forest.

It helps to explain why tropical rainforests are so much more diverse than forests in temperate countries.

Pitch pine forests are at greater risk of attack from the southern pine beetle than forests with a mix of tree species, according to research from Dartmouth College.

When seeking clues to how well conservation efforts are working in the present, sometimes scientists look to the past — and there may be no better historical record than the forest surveys conducted in Missouri by the Bureau of Land Management in the 1800s.

Savanna elephants (green area) range over a greater region than forest elephants (purple area shows where hybrids of the two species occur).

Only a few variants of the tree can be grown, it said, and only with strict management practices, including harvesting within six months of the onset of flower production — much sooner than a forest plantation would like.

We studied personality in 130 wild great tits captured in Barcelona city and nearby forests and found that urban birds were more explorative and bolder towards a novel object than forest birds.

The chameleons living in South Africa's Fynbos plains are also smaller than their forest - dwelling cousins, possibly as a result of having less food available.

In addition, the results speak to the problem of deforestation, Vogel says, as the study shows partially logged forests in Borneo are better than no forests at all.

I prefer an orange - red, over a fuchsia, and a slightly darker apple green — if that makes sense — make me happier than a forest green, but overall, most of the colors I got introduced over the past years, truly did so much for me, my mood, my skin - tone, my hair color.

According to the National Science Foundation, «Areas of patchy woods, which are very common in cities and suburban and rural areas, may have higher populations of Lyme - disease carrying ticks than forest fragments... this is because some species thrive in smaller places.»

The Water and Winter levels to me were a little more drab than the forest or inferno levels, which just seemed to pop a bit more.

There is perhaps no stronger iconography of the Polish landscape than its forests, laden with beauty and witness to great atrocities.

In some important cases the agricultural use may be sequestering more carbon than forest growth would.

It's different than a forest which is based on biomass, and biomass does saturate.

Crucially, the green tag attached to kenaf is gaining more importance as people, companies and governments realize that the kenaf crop removes substantial amounts of CO2 and NO2 from the atmosphere and three to five times faster than forests with its deep roots improving the soil.

Recent research from WRI and the Rights and Resources Initiative found that legally recognized and protected community forests have lower rates of deforestation than forests where community rights are insecure.

It is more elevated or more poleward than the forest line.

Crops are also less efficient in retaining moisture than forests, with immediate effects on local weather.

In the Brazilian rainforest, scientists found that the forest edge stores as much as one - fifth less carbon than the forest interior, adding to the case for maintaining the forest's integrity.

Most ominously, the combination of dead trees, insect infestation and fire on forest ecosystems will likely release carbon — perhaps more, in some places, than forests store.

A Science paper concluded that tropical forests are now a net source of carbon emissions, with deforestation and forest degradation releasing more CO2 into the atmosphere on an annual basis than forests can sequester.

In reality, biodiversity - challenged plantations are a far less reliable carbon sink than forests.

Trees, plants, and soils across the northern latitudes lock up 30 percent of the world's carbon, far more than forests closer to the equator.

Logging can even create greater carbon emissions than forest fires!