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This simple material could scrub carbon dioxide from power plant smokestacks
Nov 03, 2022 (SPX)
The team's object of study is aluminum formate, one of a class of substances called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). As a group, MOFs have exhibited great poten...
TanSat's first attempt to detect human-caused CO2 is successful
Oct 26, 2022 (SPX)
The team, with researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Finnish Meteorological Institute, published their research in the journal Advances in At...
Getting it to stick: Grabbing CO2 out of the air
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
Direct air capture (DAC) technologies are designed to remove carbon dioxide from the air, although there's still a lot of room for improvement in DAC materials....
Pink diamond sells for nearly $58 million in Hong Kong
Oct 08, 2022 (AFP)
The 11.15-carat Williamson Pink Star on Friday fetched HK$453.2 million ($57.7 million), the second-highest price paid at auction for any jewel, Sotheby's added...
Fossil fuel reserves contain 3.5 tn tonnes of CO2: database
Sep 18, 2022 (AFP)
Human activity since the Industrial Revolution, largely powered by coal, oil and gas, has led to just under 1.2 degrees Celsius of warming and brought with it e...
Dwarf planet diamonds could hold the key to stronger machine parts
Sep 13, 2022 (SPX)
A team of researchers, including those from Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, has confirmed the existence of lonsdaleite in ureilite meteorites from t...
A breakthrough discovery in carbon capture conversion for ethylene production
Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)
While researchers have been exploring the possibility of converting carbon dioxide to ethylene for more than a decade, the UIC team's approach is the first to a...
Turning carbon dioxide into valuable products
Sep 08, 2022 (SPX)
The reason is that CO2 molecules are highly stable and therefore not prone to being chemically converted to a different form. Researchers have sought materials ...
Norway's future CO2 cemetery takes shape
Sep 04, 2022 (AFP)
The future terminal is to pump tonnes of liquefied carbon dioxide captured from the top of factory chimneys across Europe into cavities deep below the seabed. T...
It's raining diamonds across the universe, research suggests
Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)
Scientists had previously theorised that extremely high pressure and temperatures turn hydrogen and carbon into solid diamonds thousands of kilometres below the...
Carbon four times costlier to society than thought: study
Sep 01, 2022 (AFP)
The "social cost of carbon" is a way of evaluating the negative economic, labour and health consequences of CO2 emissions, calculated as the difference between ...
Greenhouse gas, sea levels at record in 2021: US agency
Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)
"The data presented in this report are clear -- we continue to see more compelling scientific evidence that climate change has global impacts and shows no sign ...
Norwegian, German firms team up for CO2 capture project
Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)
The partnership between Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor and Germany's Wintershall Dea involves building a 900-kilometre (560-mile) pipeline connecting a CO2...
European CO2 storage project signs 'milestone' deal
Aug 29, 2022 (AFP)
Northern Lights -- owned by France's TotalEnergies, Norway's Equinor and Anglo-Dutch giant Shell -- reached an agreement to transport and store carbon dioxide c...
China launches terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite
Aug 05, 2022 (XNA)
The satellites were launched at 11:08 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-4B carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. The carbon monitoring sa...
HKU Laboratory for Space Research put a positive spin on the Buckyball 'C60
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
The theoretical astrophysicists and astrochemists at the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) and Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) seem...
Physicists discover a family of robust, superconducting graphene structures
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
In 2018, MIT researchers found that if two graphene layers are stacked at a very specific "magic" angle, the twisted bilayer structure could exhibit robust supe...
Two-dimensional ionic liquids to effectively capture carbon dioxide
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
Recently, a group led by Profs ZHANG Suojiang and HE Hongyan from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has found ...
New Findings on the Formation of Ionized Carbon
Jul 12, 2022 (SPX)
Since the 1990's scientists have suspected that ionized carbon might be formed by galaxies plowing through the hot gas of clusters-a process known as "ram press...
Scientists look to the sky in effort to mitigate carbon problem
Jul 06, 2022 (SPX)
Despite this important role, DAC technologies have yet to be assessed in a forward-looking, dynamic system context. That is why scientists from NREL, the Nether...
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