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X-raying rocks reveals their carbon-storing capacity
Mar 29, 2026 (SPX)
Some pilot projects are already underway to demonstrate such "carbon mineralization." These efforts have shown promising results in terms of successfully minera...
CO2 binding concrete aims to turn construction into carbon sink
Mar 29, 2026 (SPX)
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology are working with partners in the EU-funded C-SINC project to turn concrete into a carbon sink by partially repl...
Microwave method speeds coal based carbon for CO2 capture
Feb 16, 2026 (SPX)
The research team developed a strategy that combines a pre oxidation step with microwave activation to create nitrogen doped ultramicroporous carbon from Ningdo...
Engineered biochar harnesses sunlight to speed pollutant breakdown
Feb 08, 2026 (SPX)
The study, published in the journal Biochar, introduces a co-engineering strategy that integrates biochar with artificial humic substances produced via a contro...
Targeted northern tree planting could deliver major carbon drawdown for Canada
Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)
The team from the University of Waterloo used an artificial intelligence driven modelling framework to estimate carbon removal under realistic northern conditio...
Oceans struggle to absorb Earth's carbon dioxide as microplastics invade their waters
Jan 05, 2026 (SPX)
Defined as tiny plastic fragments smaller than five millimeters in size, microplastics have become ubiquitous. They are found almost everywhere, from deep ocean...
Helsinki chemists develop low temperature direct air capture fluid
Jan 01, 2026 (SPX)
Tests show that one gram of the compound absorbs 156 milligrams of carbon dioxide from air without reacting with nitrogen, oxygen or other background gases. Thi...
Europe wanted its carbon border tax to go global -- is it working?
Dec 29, 2025 (AFP)
As the levy system becomes fully operational on January 1, countries exporting emissions-intensive goods to the European Union face a choice: pay at the border,...
CO2 soon to be buried under North Sea oil platform
Dec 22, 2025 (AFP)
CCS technology is one of the tools approved by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) to curb globa...
Biochar shifts soil microbes that fix carbon dioxide in farmland
Dec 16, 2025 (SPX)
A study published in the journal Biochar examined how autotrophic microbes that use the Calvin cycle to fix carbon dioxide respond to biochar in flooded rice pa...
Field work on South Africa's living rocks reveals rapid carbon capture in extreme conditions
Dec 16, 2025 (SPX)
An international team led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and Rhodes University has now quantified how these living structures absorb carbon and conver...
A new take on carbon capture
Nov 26, 2025 (SPX)
At least Halliday wasn't alone: For many years, researchers have tried and mostly failed to find materials that could reliably absorb CO2 at the super-high temp...
Ancient deep ocean rocks shown to be long-term carbon storage reservoirs
Nov 25, 2025 (SPX)
Dr Rosalind Coggon, Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, said, "We've known for a long time that erosion on the slopes of underwater ...
Prescribed burning helps store forest carbon in big, fire-resistant trees
Nov 24, 2025 (SPX)
After more than a century of fire suppression in California's forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire - through practices like prescribed fire or In...
Ecosystems face new carbon challenge from dissolved organic matter shifts
Nov 20, 2025 (SPX)
DOM, consisting of molecules released from decaying plants, microorganisms, and plastics, changes in structure as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns shift....
MIT startup Mantel pioneers breakthrough system for capturing CO2 and delivering usable steam to industries
Nov 20, 2025 (SPX)
If there was one thing Cameron Halliday SM '19, MBA '22, PhD '22 was exceptional at during the early days of his PhD at MIT, it was producing the same graph ove...
The case of Africa's 'vanishing' carbon deals
Nov 20, 2025 (AFP)
It was one of a flurry of deals UAE-based Blue Carbon signed that year covering millions of hectares of forests across Africa from Liberia to Zimbabwe -- in one...
New standards needed to manage marine carbon removal efforts
Nov 18, 2025 (SPX)
Marine carbon dioxide removal builds on the ocean's natural ability to absorb carbon via biological methods, including the promotion of plankton and seaweed gro...
Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30: NGO
Nov 17, 2025 (AFP)
The list, assembled by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), names oil and gas giants such as ExxonMobil, Shell and BP, along with Brazil's sta...
UN regulator says shipping still wants to decarbonize -- despite US threats
Nov 15, 2025 (AFP)
Brazil was confident global unity would prevail at November's climate talks, but the exceptionally undiplomatic scenes at the International Maritime Organizatio...
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