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Simulation provides images from the carbon nucleus
May 16, 2023 (SPX)
The nucleus of a carbon atom normally consists of six protons and six neutrons. But how exactly are they arranged? And how does their configuration change when ...
Novel electrochemical method converts CO2 into carbonaceous materials
May 16, 2023 (SPX)
Against this backdrop, environmental researchers from Doshisha University, Japan led by Prof. Takuya Goto recently published a study in Electrochimica Acta on 1...
With formic acid towards CO2 neutrality
May 16, 2023 (SPX)
In view of rising greenhouse gas emissions, carbon capture, the sequestration of carbon dioxide from large emission sources, is an urgent issue. In nature, carb...
Climate maths 'doesn't add up' without carbon capture: COP28 chief
May 10, 2023 (AFP)
Sultan Al Jaber said renewables such as solar and wind "cannot be the only answer", especially in the steel, cement and aluminium industries, where emissions ar...
EU seals carbon market reform to speed cuts in greenhouse gases
Apr 25, 2023 (AFP)
The sign-off, in a Luxembourg meeting of EU agriculture ministers, endorses a European Parliament vote last week on various legislative texts in the reform, whi...
Wonder material graphene claims yet another superlative
Apr 19, 2023 (SPX)
Such materials are rare, and most metals and semiconductors change their electrical resistivity only by a tiny fraction of a percent at room temperature and in ...
Finding a better metric to measure human ecological footprints
Apr 18, 2023 (SPX)
Each of these "footprints" offers an estimate of the impacts individuals and institutions have on the wider world, and are useful - but are flawed, according to...
EU lawmakers adopt vast carbon market reform
Apr 18, 2023 (AFP)
The legislative step crystallises an ambitious EU plan to reform Europe's carbon market by broadening an emissions trading scheme to more industries and lowerin...
'Big sponge': new CO2 tech taps oceans to tackle global warming
Apr 17, 2023 (AFP)
Scientists from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have been working for two years on SeaChange -- an ambitious project that could one day boost the am...
MIT technology prevents fouling in photobioreactors for CO2 capture
Apr 16, 2023 (SPX)
MIT researchers have come up with a simple and inexpensive technology that could substantially limit this fouling, potentially allowing for a much more efficien...
UTA research uses seawater to remove carbon dioxide from atmosphere
Apr 12, 2023 (SPX)
Erika La Plante, assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, received a $125,000 subgrant from the University of California-Los Ang...
World's biggest cumulative logjam mapped in Arctic
Apr 12, 2023 (SPX)
"To put that in perspective, that's about two and a half million car emissions for a year," said Alicia Sendrowski, a research engineer who led the study while ...
To more effectively sequester biomass and carbon, just add salt
Apr 12, 2023 (SPX)
As reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers propose growing biomass crops to capture carbon from the air, then buryi...
Quantifying carbon leakage from enhanced rock weathering
Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)
Many climate models include the removal of between 5 and 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide per year through the end of the century. Christopher Reinhard and colleag...
Aston University biomass expert calls for more exploration of power bioenergy with carbon capture and storage
Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)
However, Professor Patricia Thornley, director of Aston University's Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI), believes the government shouldn't just co...
Long-forgotten equation provides new tool for converting carbon dioxide
Apr 07, 2023 (SPX)
The calculation - named the Cottrell equation for chemist Frederick Gardner Cottrell, who developed it in 1903 - can help today's researchers understand the sev...
Path to net-zero carbon capture and storage may lead to ocean
Apr 02, 2023 (SPX)
The approach uses an innovative copper-containing polymeric filter and essentially converts CO2 into sodium bicarbonate (aka baking soda) that can be released h...
VIMS study: sea-level rise is double-edged sword for carbon storage
Mar 31, 2023 (SPX)
A recent study in Nature Communications from researchers at William and Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science uses their newly developed computer model to...
New additives could turn concrete into an effective carbon sink
Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)
Recent discoveries by a team at MIT have revealed that introducing new materials into existing concrete manufacturing processes could significantly reduce this ...
Graphene grows - and we can see it
Mar 27, 2023 (SPX)
Two-dimensional materials, consisting of a hyper-thin single layer of atomic crystal, have attracted a lot of attention recently. This well-deserved attention i...
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