Sentences with phrase «vast amounts of carbon»

Hundreds of millions of cars around the planet are releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day, causing ocean acidification and global warming.

As well as its ecological impact, deforestation also releases vast amounts of carbon dioxide - ten percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

The only way the world is going to be able to limit warming to 2 °C is by sucking vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, using technology that does not yet exist.

Scientists generally agree that in the last century, humans have warmed the planet about.7 degrees C by pumping vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the air.

The world continues to emit vast amounts of carbon dioxide.

Yet these properties of the solar system must now compete against a new force — a creature that shifts vast amounts of carbon from deep underground storage into the atmosphere.

Scientists generally agree that in the last century, humans have warmed the planet about.7 degrees C (about 1.3 degrees F) by pumping vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the air.

The destruction of seagrass could also trigger the release of vast amounts of carbon stored under it.

Flannigan refers to it as «legacy carbon,» an accumulation of centuries of plant matter that sequesters vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.

Trees absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide and water, and as part of the process, make oxygen and sugar.

Each spring in the Arctic, the freshet — flooding triggered by melting snow — washes vast amounts of carbon - rich soil from the land into the water — both fresh water and the ocean.

We'll need vast amounts of carbon - free energy to stave off global warming.

Energy - hogging processes used in both the extraction of minerals needed for, and the production of, concrete and steel release vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

However, for the remainder of the Phanerozoic ca was less than 1000 ppm, consistent with the emergence of global forests that captured and sequestered vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere [Berner, 2003].

Well, researchers suspect that it is a key player in global warming by releasing vast amount of carbon from permafrost soils in the form of methane, a powerful heat - trapping gas in the Earth's atmosphere.

While peat bogs now serve as some of the world's biggest terrestrial carbon sinks, scientists worry that environmental disturbances — the drying effects of climate change, land - clearing and drainage, wildfires and other human activities — could cause the underlying organic matter to decompose and release vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

Famously wet tropical forests, such as those in the Amazon, go up in flames, destroying the world's richest wildlife habitats and releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide to speed global warming.

Researchers have long known that tropical forests sequester, or store, vast amounts of carbon; recent estimates have put the total at between 225 and 250 billion tons.

Study co-author Scott Wing, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, adds: «This study gives us the best idea yet of how quickly this vast amount of carbon was released at the beginning of the global warming event we call the Paleocene - Eocene thermal maximum.

Vast amounts of carbon are stored in undecayed organic matter — dead plants and animals — in Arctic permafrost and peat.

Assistant Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science Robert Spencer and a team of researchers traveled to Siberia from 2012 to 2015 to better understand how thawing permafrost affected the carbon cycle and specifically to see if the vast amounts of carbon stored in this permafrost were thawing and how it w transferring to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

As the Dolomites also show, vast amounts of carbon dioxide can be captured (over long periods of time) in rocks.

Starting in 1981, the company delayed the development of the massive Natuna natural gas field in the South China Sea because of the vast amounts of carbon dioxide it believed it would release.

Healthy natural forests store vast amounts of carbon and are the most resilient to climate change and other disturbances.

These predictions are especially important in vulnerable regions like the Arctic, which is expected to warm considerably this century, and which holds a vast amount of carbon in the tundra.

«One major concern about wildfires becoming more frequent in permafrost areas is the potential to put the vast amounts of carbon stored there at increased risk of being emitted and further amplify warming,» said Todd Sanford, a climate scientist at Climate Central and lead author of the group's newly released report on Alaskan wildfires, by e-mail.

(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.

This vegetation stores vast amounts of carbon, keeping it out of the atmosphere where it can contribute to climate change.

As part of the Earth's natural carbon cycle, vast amounts of carbon dioxide are taken out of the atmosphere and absorbed by the land each year.

A vast amount of carbon stored in Arctic permafrost is being converted into carbon dioxide (CO2) once it enters freshwater systems - a process that is worrying experts tracking climate change.

Amazon - The Amazon rainforest hosts some of the richest biodiversity in the world; stores vast amounts of carbon; and regulates the climate and rainfall over a vast area.

We can also make sense of the vast amount of carbon pollution we're talking about here with the help of the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator.

Every year, trees and plants across the world absorb a vast amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.