Sentences with phrase «under high carbon dioxide»

They showed that under high carbon dioxide conditions, plants deactivate three genes that help them produce chemical defenses against insects.

The results show that under high carbon dioxide levels, the bugs ate 88 per cent more leaf material than under current levels.

Such diversity research has already led to the development of disease - resistant strains and the identification of crops that could thrive under higher carbon dioxide conditions, as well as new ways to deploy diversity.

Future crop yields lower - than - expected under higher carbon dioxide levels Future crop yields lower than expected under higher carbon dioxide levels mongabay.com June 29, 2006 Open - air field trials involving five major...

«[The trees] may be able to grow taller for a given diameter under higher carbon dioxide, and you wouldn't see that from tree rings.

A study, just out Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, supports a long - standing theory that some plants become more efficient at using water under higher carbon dioxide concentrations.

Not exact matches

Despite a series of high - profile cancellations, projects to capture and store the carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and other sources are under construction

Five cultures each were kept under control conditions (15 °C) and at elevated water temperature (26 °C) in combination with three different concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2): a control value with today's conditions, the conditions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's «worst case scenario» and the highest possible degree of acidification.

«They are using this information to test state - of - the - art climate models under conditions of high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, similar to those expected by the end of this century.»

Taking each factor independently, the team found that CCS only achieves the necessary deployment under one of the following conditions: the price of oil is greater than $ 85 / barrel; the carbon tax incentives increase dramatically to above $ 75 per tonne of carbon dioxide by 2050; or learning rates for technology deployment are sustained at a high rate, with 14 % cost reduction for every doubling of deployment.

The team also showed that calcite associated with two seismic events in the earthquake cluster indicates very rapid carbon dioxide degassing, which can occur when fluid under high pressure is released — like opening the top of a shaken bottle of soda.

For the study, five cultures were kept under a constant temperature and three different concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2): a control value with today's conditions, the conditions that could be reached until the end of this century according to the most critical calculations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the highest possible degree of acidification.

The tropical rainforest was able to persist under elevated temperatures and high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide,.......

Invasive species are fending very well under higher temperatures and carbon dioxide conditions.

They are also exploring Chinese rice varieties for higher productivity under environments with higher temperatures and high carbon dioxide.

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And you can speed up the process through another healthy way to decaffeinate coffee called carbon dioxide processing where the coffee is exposed under these higher pressures to natural carbon dioxide and it does the same caffeine extracting type of process but at a much, much faster rate so it's a little bit easier to do.

GDI engines generally deliver lower carbon dioxide emissions due to their higher fuel efficiency, but have recently come under scrutiny for their higher particulate emissions relative to port - injected engines.

Using the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) ensemble, Jascha Lehmann from Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and colleagues rolled climate forward to 2100 and looked at the change in storm tracks under a high carbon - dioxide - emissions scenario.

Under normal driving conditions, well - to - wheel carbon dioxide emissions for vehicles running on electricity from natural gas — fired power plants are one fourth as high as emissions from cars directly burning natural gas.

The carbon dioxide filled bottle both heats up faster and reaches a higher temperature than the air filled bottle under the same powered heat lamp at the same distance from the bottle.

We would then need every possible molecule of carbon dioxide — just to keep agricultural production high enough to stave off mass human starvation... and save wildlife habitats from being plowed under to replace that lost cropland.

• Won a key 2007 victory on greenhouse gas vehicle emissions when the nation's highest court sided with our coalition and struck down the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

The 2010 drought is still under study; some evidence suggests that the 2005 drought was linked to high Atlantic Ocean temperatures that may in turn be linked to human emissions of carbon dioxide.

This choosiness ties back to the theory that plants use water more efficiently under higher levels of carbon dioxide.