Contrary to the conventional view that human activities damage the environment, Glaser says, "Black carbon combined with human wastes is responsible for the richness of Terra Preta soils."

与人类活动破坏环境的传统观点相反，格拉泽说：“与人类排泄物结合的黑碳是黑土高地土壤肥沃的原因。”

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The team suggests the loss of trees from the two droughts combined could offset the increases in carbon uptake the forest experienced during the intervening non-drought years.

小组称两场干旱中死去树木会抵消在两场干旱期间森林所增加的碳含量。 这项研究仅仅代表了一种最初的估计具有显著的不确定性，研究者承认道。

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The acetogenic bacteria directly convert all of the carbon in sugar into acetic acid, which is then combined with hydrogen to produce ethanol without the carbon losses, the firm claims.

ZeanChem声称，乙酸细菌直接将所有糖中的碳转化成乙酸，然后与氢结合生成乙醇而没有碳的损失。

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These include Yuri Suzuki, a materials scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is building stacks of metal oxides in the hopes that, when combined with carbon-based materials, they'll blend into a new kind of semiconductor that can control spin at normal temperatures.

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The scrubbed alkaline clay would then be combined with treated flue gas, which is a carbon-rich gas that is normally released into the atmosphere during the manufacturing process.

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To those concerned about emissions, it emphasized that the 400, 000-barrel-a-day refinery, plus an integrated gasification combined cycle plant, could sequester carbon more cheaply than a coal plant.

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