During their growth life,
trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen.
Not exact matches
Eating less meat will free up a lot of agricultural land which can revert to growing
trees and other vegetation, which, in turn, will
absorb more
carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere.
As regional warming caused an increased number of
trees to die, there would be less living
trees to
absorb carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere.
Over the course of a
tree «slife it
absorbs carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere and thenreleases...
* Scientists discovered that a recent, unexplained surge of
carbon dioxide levels in the
atmosphere is due to more greenhouse gases escaping
from trees, plants and soils — which have traditionally buffered the warming by
absorbing the gases.
And big
trees matter: they have a giant part in
absorbing carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere but their very height means that they must work harder to haul water to the canopy.