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Carbon offsets: a booming market or greenwashing?
Nov 11, 2021 (AFP)
Voluntary carbon offsetting are being hotly debated at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Here's a backgrounder. How does it work? Carbon offsetting is when a...
Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite given the shakes
Nov 11, 2021 (ESA)
As the reality of climate change is hitting hard, the target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 C is critical if we have any hope combating climate chan...
Repurposing carbon dioxide may be key to net-zero emissions
Nov 08, 2021 (SPX)
A team of researchers in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A and M University recently published a comprehensive review article on ...
Korea Maritime and Ocean University shows new paths to capturing atmospheric greenhouse gas
Nov 08, 2021 (SPX)
"In our previous work, we demonstrated the effectiveness of these clathrates for the recovery of CO2 and N2O individually. But capturing them simultaneously cou...
Planet vs people as Panama's mangroves are turned into coal
Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)
He says he has no other choice for a living. "This is the daily survival of my family, of my children, of my wife," Rodriguez told AFP in El Espave, a town abou...
CO2 can be turned into a valuable resource
Nov 04, 2021 (SPX)
One of the biggest challenges of our time is how to reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This is the o...
Urgent action needed to reduce uncertainty on CO2 storage prospects
Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)
The study's lead author, Joe Lane, a former postdoctoral research associate in the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, said CCS is regarded as a ke...
Researchers move closer to controlling two-dimensional graphene
Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)
Silicon's 3D lattice, however, is too big for next-generation electronics, which include ultra-thin transistors, new devices for optical communication, and flex...
Supporting life beyond earth could be possible - thanks to graphene innovation
Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)
A community of specialists at The University of Manchester have teamed up with global architect firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) to research the design a...
In Iceland, CO2 sucked from the air is turned to rock
Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)
Orca, based on the Icelandic word for "energy," does its cutting-edge work at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in southwest Iceland. It is the world's lar...
Simple method for converting carbon dioxide into useful compounds
Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)
The research was carried out by scientists at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, and colleagues, and the results are...
An X-ray view of carbon
Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)
An international research team including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has adapted an established measurement method to these extreme conditio...
Researchers develop catalyst for stable reduction of carbon dioxide
Oct 26, 2021 (SPX)
However, the current catalyst present particle agglomerate, active-phase change and element dissolution during the high-speed electrolysis, resulting in the rap...
Greenhouse gas levels reach record high amid COP26 worries
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
The UN's blunt report on rising global warming comes as Prime Minister Johnson, the COP26 host, said it was "very, very far from clear that we'll get the progre...
Rich should pay for greater carbon footprint: study
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
With carbon emission levels returning to pre-pandemic levels, most recent data shows the richest one percent of the globe's population emitted 110 tonnes of CO2...
UN chief 'very worried' over possible COP26 failure
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, struck at the COP21 summit, called for capping global warming at well below 2C above the pre-industrial level, and i...
Climate: Removing CO2 from the air no longer optional
Oct 19, 2021 (AFP)
Less talked about -- but rising quickly on the climate agenda -- are tools and techniques to pull CO2 straight out of the air. Even scientists sceptical about i...
Graphene: 'Miracle material' singled out for Covid conspiracies
Oct 01, 2021 (AFP)
- What is graphene? - Often referred to as a "miracle material," graphene is one of the world's strongest materials, and one of the lightest. A form of carbon j...
World's largest plant capturing CO2 from air starts up in Iceland
Sep 08, 2021 (AFP)
The plant, named Orca, after the Icelandic word "orka" meaning "energy", consists of four units, each made up of two metal boxes, similar in appearance to the c...
Making catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
Sep 08, 2021 (SPX)
A new production process yielded catalysts that increased the efficiency of the chemical reactions by fivefold, potentially enabling useful new processes in bio...
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