Sentence examples for draw carbon dioxide from inspiring English sources
Lackner is developing artificial trees that draw carbon dioxide from the air, in part, by harnessing the power of evaporation.
Or they may be stimulated to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, softening the blow of climate change.
It has made her especially skeptical of human efforts to alter ocean life to draw carbon dioxide out of the air.
The remainder will stay in the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years because it takes that long for natural processes – mainly rock weathering – to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
At the last ministerial meeting in the Hague, Europe resisted when the United States asked that countries be allowed to win credit for carbon "sinks," including reforestation projects, which draw carbon dioxide out of the air through photosynthesis.
Algae draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere when growing; when the derived fuel is burned, the same CO2 is released, making the fuel theoretically zero-carbon, although processing and transporting the fuel requires some energy.
Nevertheless, when life appeared, the evolution of minerals and the diversity of life became entwined.Microscopic algae, the earliest living organisms, drew carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and expelled oxygen.
"There's much more carbon in soils than there is carbon in the atmosphere; so a small change in soil carbon makes a big change for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere". Biochar works by drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and sequestering it in the soil, he said.
This restoration narrative, I think, could be greatly strengthened by recent findings suggesting that ecological recovery – restoring forests, salt marshes, peat bogs, the seabed and other crucial ecosystems – could, by drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, make a massive contribution towards preventing climate breakdown.
That tight correlation suggests that oceanic plant life formed part of a "biological pump" by drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, thus lowering the temperature, the team says.
