Sentences with phrase «vast amounts of carbon dioxide»

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.

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.

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 world continues to emit vast amounts of carbon dioxide.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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