Sentences with phrase «with decaying plants»

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And with the Sun continuously expanding and contributions of green house gases from volcanoes, African termites, cows and decaying trees / plants / insects / animals, there may not be anything we can do about it even if there is an effect.

In the tropics, where swamp forests are filled with large, leafy trees, blankets of peat are typically built up by decayed woody plants.

If tobacco growers are using fertilizer on their plants, it obviously works, even though it is made from uranium - rich phosphate rock and results in polonium 210 — a decay product of uranium — being inhaled with cigarette smoke.

The banksia and other members of the protea family extend roots across the soil surface to collect the tiny amount of nutrients that come with rainfall or decaying plant matter.

Also, working with flies means collecting them where they're easily found — around decaying plants, animals, and feces.

Compared with plants, decaying animals are an incredibly rich source of nutrients like nitrogen and carbon.

Possibilities include environmental toxins linked to crops or to plant decay by - products (e.g., bacterial / fungal toxins), as well as a combination of the former with agricultural practices, atmospheric chemistry, and an idiosyncratic immune reaction in genetically susceptible children (28, 29).

Each year, the atmosphere goes through a cycle of carbon dioxide levels, following the bloom and decay of plants with the seasons.

In these environments, organic material from plants and other sources slowly decays with the help of microorganisms called Archaea, releasing methane (CH4) into the atmosphere [Schuur et al., 2015].

«If you spray a (non-GM) plant with pesticide or a herbicide, you're not allowed to harvest it and market it for a certain period of time to give the chemical time to decay, (but with pesticide - resistant GM crops) there's no withholding period... and the pesticide is in every cell of the plant, so you eat it.»

With unemployment so high, and perhaps worsening, it is difficult to invest in new plant and equipment, but easy to build up excess liquid assets as protection against further decay.

In our decaying world where soils devoid of nutrients are producing plants and animals with vitamin and mineral deficiencies, we must realize the solution is NOT to fill the gap with synthetics, but rather seek out whole food sources.

Nearly all the walls of the apartment are covered with art, including works by the wonderfully wiseass Alejandro Gonzáles, who has a series of sparkling photographs of megaprojects the Cuban government never finished, such as the ghostly Juragua nuclear power plant decaying somewhere off the coast.

The ceremonial tree planting instead made me think of Earth Day, whereas his environmental ideal and environmental art had more to do with salt, rock, the human imprint, and decay than with an ecosystem's organic growth and sense of repose.

ANYA GALLACCIO / DOUG AND MIKE STARN The charming Gallaccio, a sweet contemporary of the sour Young British Artists, continues to mix up nature and artifice, with cast - bronze, silver - berried branches; a gilded bronze potato plant; actual gerbera daisies smushed and decaying between panes of glass set in antique doors; and draped fishnets made of gold lamé.

Winters's sculptural paintings with hand - crafted float frames depict characters undergoing processes of decay, their faces being consumed by plants and fungi.

So it is quite likely that plant photosynthesis (including that happening in the ocean from phytoplankton) could well be constrained by CO2 concentration at 280 ppmv, with a slightly higher input from animal respiration plus emissions from the Earth's interior balancing out the natural decay rate.