Sentences with phrase «to escape into the atmosphere»

The ban would keep millions of tons of greenhouse gas pollution from escaping into the atmosphere and worsening the climate crisis.

But, in addition, it also produces methane, which escapes into the atmosphere in the form of gas.

They help define the architecture of forests and store much of the world's biomass, locking up billions of tonnes of carbon that might otherwise escape into the atmosphere.

During production and distribution, some methane inevitably escapes into the atmosphere.

Alongside burning fossil fuels, land - use change is a major source of carbon dioxide escaping into the atmosphere.

Currently developing countries account for some 55 % of global emissions, with developed countries having made major efforts to cut carbon pollutants escaping into the atmosphere.

Based on the best currently available data, around 3.6 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas escaped into the atmosphere in 2012 from global oil and gas operations.

For instance, if the earth were slightly larger, hydrogen, a light gas, could not escape into the atmosphere at its prescribed rate (due to an increase in the earth's gravitational field), and over time would build up and cause life to cease.

«You will lose a lot of soil carbon, which will escape into the atmosphere as CO2,» warned Piñeiro.

Methane, which escapes into the atmosphere when the industry drills for natural gas, is a greenhouse gas like CO2, except it's even worse for the climate.

Phytoplankton and other plants in the surface ocean can emit gases containing bromine and also chlorine and iodine into the water, which then escape into the atmosphere.

But it is a bit more complicated to manufacture, and also works less efficiently than ammonium nitrate, because when it hits the soil, the resulting reaction lets a lot of nitrogen escape into the atmosphere.

Risks that carbon dioxide will escape into the atmosphere while it is being stored underground are greatly diminished because the solidification process occurs so quickly, he said.

Marine geologist Karin Andreassen at CAGE, the study's lead author, says the data could hold lessons for retreating ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland, although her team could not determine how much methane actually escaped into the atmosphere from blowouts in the distant past.

In 2012, we set out to better answer this question by launching our largest research project to date: A series of 16 independent, rigorously executed projects [PDF] designed to find out how much and from where methane is escaping into the atmosphere across the entire supply chain.

The IPCC in its Working Group III report says natural gas as a bridge fuel will only be effective if few gases escape into the atmosphere during natural gas production and distribution.

Chemical fertilizer use for the past 50 years has produced a huge greenhouse gas burden through its manufacturing, transport and routine escape into the atmosphere from agricultural fields.

An estimated one to nine percent of all natural gas produced escapes into the atmosphere, equivalent to the global warming emissions from 35 — 314 typical - sized coal power plants (600 megawatts).

Experts caution that environmental impacts are still being investigated and that methane − a greenhouse gas with around 25 times as much global warming potential over a 100 - year period (GWP100), as carbon dioxide − could potentially escape into the atmosphere if something goes wrong.

Since methane is a greenhouse gas and most landfills don't produce enough of it to make energy production worthwhile, many dumpsites burn, or flare, the methane away so that the harmful gas does not escape into the atmosphere.

Professor Turetsky and her colleagues report that a recent rise in atmospheric methane probably stems from wetland emissions, suggesting that much more will escape into the atmosphere as northern wetlands continue to thaw and tropical ones to warm.

Unfortunately, one of the consistent contaminants is mercury, and the heating process allows it to escape into the atmosphere in gaseous form.

The EVAP system prevents fuel vapors from the fuel tank from escaping into the atmosphere.

But this new study estimates that as much as 8 % of all methane in shale gas escapes into the atmosphere - and methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas.

The main byproducts of combustion are carbon dioxide and water vapor, which escape into the atmosphere.

New natural gas pipelines do not face the same kind of opposition as oil pipelines because the product is a gas and, in case of a leak, it escapes into the atmosphere rather than fouling waterways and soil.

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons is that the methane biogas produced within them is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons with efficient green energy storage is that the methane biogas produced is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water plants being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

Their role in this regard continues today — while the methane trapped in hydrates is a potential source of future energy, it may also serve as a potent source of greenhouse gas if it escapes into the atmosphere.

But simply by growing they also lock carbon in the soil, stopping it escaping into the atmosphere.

Instead of settling on the seafloor, that stray carbon may acidify seawater or escape into the atmosphere.

However, on the shelf where Shakhova measured methane releases, the shallowness of the sea and the fact that methane is released as bubbles mean that it rises quickly to the surface and escapes into the atmosphere.

This evidence suggests that if CO2 could be locked into this solid form, it would be stowed away for good, unable to escape into the atmosphere.

Based on past work, they're also dubious that sources of methane such as landfills and leaky pipelines will be equipped to capture the gas before it escapes into the atmosphere.

What it means: «Land use, land - use change and forestry,» which is often abbreviated to just «land use,» is responsible for about a quarter of the climate - changing pollution that's escaping into the atmosphere every year.

Measured over a century, methane has 25 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide — so the last thing the planet needs is for the stuff to be escaping into the atmosphere.

Carbon Sink A reservoir that can hold carbon and prevent it from escaping into the atmosphere.

If it were to escape into the atmosphere, it would dissipate so rapidly that it wouldn't be able to cause anything more than skin irritation and a bad smell, said Ferguson.

Between 80 % and 90 % of methane emitted from rice fields is produced by microbes living on plant roots; some of the gas dissolves into the water and bubbles up, but most is absorbed along with water by plant roots, travels up to the stems and leaves, and escapes into the atmosphere.

Even if warming releases those hydrates, it would occur on a timescale of centuries and it is unclear how much would escape into the atmosphere, she says.

The study also found that open landfills emit 91 percent of all landfill methane emissions, while closed landfills are 17 percent more efficient than open landfills at capturing methane so it does not escape into the atmosphere.

Drastic changes to the microbial community are expected to allow more CO2 to escape into the atmosphere, with the potential to exaggerate global warming.

According to the note, he challenged Weinberg's assertion that global circulation patterns move CO2 out of the deep oceans to the surface where it escapes into the atmosphere, a process known as «upwelling.»

To find out how much methane is escaping into the atmosphere, they measured the flux of methane at the ocean surface.

If it escapes into the atmosphere instead, methane acts as a potent greenhouse gas — in fact, it is over 20 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.

The Evaporative System (EVAP) prevents the fuel vapors from the fuel tank from escaping into the atmosphere.

The EVAP system prevents fuel vapors in the fuel tank from escaping into the atmosphere.