Sentence examples for growing forests from inspiring English sources

Reestablishment of forested vegetation on mine sites also creates societal value, as those growing forests produce "ecosystem services" by storing carbon, protecting water quality, and regulating water quantity to reduce high flows and flooding (Zipper et al. 2011b).

That growing forests, natural or planted, do this is obvious.

For example, it grants credits for growing forests, which absorb carbon dioxide.

For example, a power company that emits carbon dioxide might buy credits from a paper company that is growing forests, which absorb carbon dioxide.

From the middle ages, living standards just edged up at a snail's pace, and we did little damage to the planet, because growing forests absorbed carbon from wood burning.

In fact, there are other biological approaches available, such as carbon farming, a collection of practices for growing forests, food, and livestock in ways that have the potential to sequester enormous amounts of carbon in the soil.

More blocks of old tenements were demolished to make way for a growing forest of condominium towers.

Whether Stieglitz was capturing the growing forest of skyscrapers in Manhattan, or snapping his final image of a young tree, he was always looking for the new.

"If you replace a growing forest by energy crops under the current accounting rules of the EU, you may very well increase greenhouse gas emissions".

One jarring moment: Jeremy standing at the edge of a growing forest fire with his "arms raised in a 'V,' " as the song says.

But the new bank, low among a growing forest of towers, had "an atmosphere of serene reticence," according to the journal Architectural Record.