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Carbon emissions increase along the forest edge, modeling study reveals

Sep 08, 2021 (UPI)

To better understand how fragmentation is impacting tropical forests, researchers used a complex algorithm to analyze high resolution satellite images of forest...

Making methane from CO2: Carbon capture grows more affordable

Sep 07, 2021 (SPX)

By streamlining a longstanding process in which CO2 is converted to methane, the researchers' new method reduces the materials needed to run the reaction, the e...

Adding foreign atoms to graphene does wonders to boost its properties

Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)

However, despite its seemingly limitless applications, graphene's potential remains underutilized due to several factors, most notably its single-atom thickness...

Enriched bicarbonate electrolytes show promise in combatting CO2 and the greenhouse effect

Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)

While bicarbonate - an electrolyte or negatively-charged ion that is used by the body to help maintain its pH balance - is commonly used in CO2ER, a group of re...

Creation of the most perfect graphene

Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)

Director Ruoff notes, "This pioneering breakthrough was due to many contributing factors, including human ingenuity and the ability of the CMCM researchers to r...

Which products are best suited for emerging carbon capture technologies

Aug 25, 2021 (SPX)

By some optimistic estimates, CCU could generate annual revenues of more than $800 billion by 2030 while reducing climate-altering carbon dioxide emissions by u...

FSU researchers refine estimate of amount of carbon in Earth's outer core

Aug 20, 2021 (SPX)

The research, published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, estimates that 0.3 to 2.0 percent of the Earth's outer core is carbon. Though the p...

How crushed rocks can help capture CO2

Jul 28, 2021 (SPX)

To reach the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, it is imperative to actively remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and permanently st...

China's carbon-monitoring satellite reports global carbon net of six gigatons

Jul 24, 2021 (SPX)

Using data on how carbon mixes with dry air collected from May 2017 to April 2018, researchers developed the first global carbon flux dataset and map. They publ...

Reducing emissions by decarbonizing industry

Jul 22, 2021 (SPX)

For example, in the cement industry, about half the emissions come from the decomposition of limestone into lime and CO2. While a shift to zero-carbon energy so...

Carbon mitigation efforts in California may be hindered by climate change itself

Jul 22, 2021 (UPI)

Unfortunately, new research -- published Thursday in the journal AGU Advances -- suggests the natural carbon storage capacity of California's forests and shrubl...

China steps up climate fight with emissions trading scheme

Jul 16, 2021 (AFP)

The scheme was launched with China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, seeking to take a global leadership role on the climate crisis in the lead up to a cruci...

Using visible light to decompose CO2 with high efficiency

Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)

One promising strategy is to chemically break down, or 'reduce,' CO2 using photocatalysts--compounds that absorb light energy and provide it to reactions, speed...

Salt marsh plants may signal carbon capture capacity

Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)

We are still just beginning to comprehend the intricate workings of these highly productive ecosystems and their role in mitigating the climate crisis, but UCon...

Subsurface geophysics is key to geological carbon dioxide storage

Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)

The date is set. According to not only the Paris Agreement but also with support from the city of Houston, 196 participating countries - including the United St...

Atomic-scale tailoring of graphene approaches macroscopic world

Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)

Now a team around Jani Kotakoski at the University of Vienna together with Nion Co. has combined an experimental setup built around an atomic-resolution Nion Ul...

NASA Map Gives Most Accurate Space-Based View of LA's Carbon Dioxide

Jun 08, 2021 (JPL)

The highest CO2 readings, in yellow on the map, are on the west side of downtown L.A. - a densely populated area with congested freeways and CO2-emitting indust...

Tiny particles power chemical reactions

Jun 08, 2021 (SPX)

The liquid, an organic solvent, draws electrons out of the particles, generating a current that could be used to drive chemical reactions or to power micro- or ...

Despite pandemic, atmospheric carbon levels hit new peak

Jun 07, 2021 (AFP)

The Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory's measurements for May 2021 averaged 419 parts per million (ppm), up from 417 ppm in May 2020, the National Ocean...

A new form of carbon

Jun 06, 2021 (SPX)

In graphene, each carbon atom is linked to three neighbours, forming hexagons arranged in a honeycomb network. Theoretical studies have shown that carbon atoms ...