Sentence examples for cause of carbon from inspiring English sources

"The most common cause of carbon monoxide in a house is faulty heating equipment," Mr. Bellini said, pointing out that cracked or improperly sealed vent pipes from the furnace or boiler could allow carbon monoxide to escape into living areas.

Thousands of wells have already been drilled in Texas, leading to a substantial rise in the use of natural gas in the US and a major decline in the burning of coal, a far more serious cause of carbon pollution.

For the first time since 1980, the transportation sector is the number one cause of carbon dioxide emissions.

However, a few studies indicate that the conversion of miombo woodlands to short-duration croplands is a major cause of carbon release from soils in the region [43, 45, 48].

Nevertheless, due to the difference in the types and synthetic procedures of PEI-functionalized carbon nanotubes between this and previous studies and the tolerance of various cells or tissues to the nanomaterial, the cause of carbon nanotube cytotoxicity remains to be investigated.

However, degradation of forests and conversion to non-forested lands is the second largest anthropogenic cause of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere [5 8] which has led to initiatives such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) [9].

The ultimate cause of carbon-14 variations with time is generally attributed to temporal fluctuations in the cosmic rays that bombard the upper atmosphere and create terrestrial carbon-14.

Tropical deforestation in Southeast Asia is one of the leading causes of carbon emissions and reductions of biodiversity.

You needn't have read the United Nations' report on global warming to know that raising animals for their flesh, eggs and milk is one of the world's leading causes of carbon dioxide emissions.

Other causes of carbon dioxide intoxication have been identified as well, such as dry ice.

Unfortunately that fear has allowed Big Coal to spend more than the Tobacco industry did making us think cigarettes were ok, to make us believe the "Saudi Arabia of coal" - the United States - will lead a clean, prosperous, independent future by continuing to destroy mountains and extract one of the world's leading causes of carbon pollution.