Sentence examples for land sink from inspiring English sources

The problem with being sure of this, though, is that the data on the land sink are not reliable.

If the same techniques were applied across the world, the size of the oceanic carbon sink, and its variation year by year, would be known considerably better than the size of the land sink.

They will get worse still if the "land sink", as researchers call the plants and soils, actually goes into reverse, adding to net emissions rather than reducing them as the respiration of microbes (which increases as temperatures rise) outstrips the photosynthesis of plants.

Unfortunately, the FFC CO2 emission and land sink dipole remained unresolved by validation experiments using independent CO2 data.

The revised GCP land sink, using corrected FFC CO2 emissions, is calculated to be 1.27 PgC, which is in closer agreement with the TRENDY simulation (Fig. 7).

However, estimations of FFC CO2 emissions and the land sink in China has been one of most discussed issues in recent times (Liu et al. 2015; Thompson et al. 2016; Jiang et al. 2016).

To the west, land sank as much as 8 feet (2.5 metres).

Parts of the shore of Prince William Sound became "ghost forests", where the land sank several feet, causing tree roots to enter the saltwater and trees to die.

Those who survived the catastrophe reported that cracks opened in the earth's surface, that the ground rolled visibly in waves and that large areas of land sank downwards.

Fires are burning in thousands of underground coal seams from Pennsylvania to Mongolia, releasing toxic gases, adding millions of tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and baking the earth until vegetation shrivels and the land sinks.

Whatever argument there may be about individual events there can be no doubt that a combination of sea level rise and the land sinking in the south and east of England is putting more coastal communities at ever increasing risk.