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Underground storage of carbon captured directly from air
Jun 04, 2021 (SPX)
In a new study published in Greenhouse Gases Science and Technology, researchers from Kyushu University and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Scienc...
Paris mayor plans new clampdown on cars in city centre
May 14, 2021 (AFP)
Anne Hidalgo, a Socialist politician who is eyeing a bid for the presidency next year, announced a public consultation on the project Wednesday that will last u...
Cotton wool proves effective in separating single-wall carbon nanotubes
Apr 26, 2021 (SPX)
Carbon nanotubes (CNT) is a family of 1D nanostructures with numerous verified applications, made possible due to their excellent mechanical, optical and conduc...
With the right carbon price path there is no need for excessive CO2 removal
Apr 26, 2021 (SPX)
To tackle this trade-off, a team of researchers from Potsdam and Berlin has now identified requirements for a dynamic, long-term carbon price pathway to reduce ...
Engineers unveil large scale CO2 conversion system
Apr 07, 2021 (UPI)
Engineers in South Korea have developed a large-scale electrochemical CO2 conversion system, as well as a scalable method for producing the catalyst. The new se...
Carbon's interstellar journey to Earth
Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)
Carbon was also likely sequestered into solids within one million years of the sun's birth--which means that carbon, the backbone of life on earth, survived an ...
How to make carbon capture and sequestration work and commercialize it
Mar 23, 2021 (SPX)
Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) has become increasingly important in addressing climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reli...
Cheaper carbon capture is on the way
Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)
In a study published in the March 2021 edition of International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Nort...
Cheap, nontoxic carbon nanodots poised to be quantum dots of the future
Mar 09, 2021 (SPX)
A new study that uses ultrafast nanometric imaging found good and bad emitters among populations of carbon dots. This observation suggests that by selecting onl...
Groundbreaking research into white-rot fungi proves its value in carbon sequestration
Mar 03, 2021 (SPX)
The research confirms a hypothesis from Davinia Salvachua Rodriguez, the senior author of a newly published paper. Until now, scientists were unsure whether whi...
CO2 pollution bounces back, climate goals at risk: IEA
Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)
Energy-related emissions were two percent higher in December 2020 than in the same month a year earlier, driven by economic recovery and a lack of clean energy ...
UK top firms not cutting carbon emissions enough: survey
Mar 01, 2021 (AFP)
A total 31 companies on London's FTSE 100 index -- and not only oil and mining giants -- are emitting levels of carbon dioxide that tally with global temperatur...
Scientists explore how to recalculate the social cost of carbon
Feb 19, 2021 (UPI)
In a new paper, published Friday in the journal Nature, a group of researchers in the fields of economies, ethics and environmental science offered a series of ...
Physicists discover important new property for graphene
Feb 09, 2021 (SPX)
The work also introduces new physics that the researchers are excited to explore. "Graphene-based heterostructures continue to produce fascinating surprises. Ou...
France exceeded CO2 reduction target in 2019: Macron
Feb 07, 2021 (AFP)
"France reduced its greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 by -1.7%. It is beyond our objective!" Macron wrote on Twitter. Earlier, Environment Minister Barbara Pompi...
NIF experiments probe carbon at record pressures
Jan 28, 2021 (SPX)
Decades of studies have shown that carbon's crystal structure has a significant impact on material properties. In addition to graphite and diamond, the most com...
Unravelling carbon uptake in concrete pavements
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
That's because calcium carbonate forms when CO2 from the air reacts with water in concrete pores, and then with calcium compounds in concrete - meaning that con...
Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems
Jan 26, 2021 (SPX)
Such catalytic systems are an attractive option for carbon capture because they can produce useful, valuable products, such as transportation fuels or chemical ...
Nanodiamonds feel the heat
Jan 21, 2021 (SPX)
Even though the cell is the fundamental unit of all living organisms, some physical properties have remained difficult to study in vivo. For example, a cell's t...
New method makes graphene nanoribbons easier to produce
Jan 12, 2021 (SPX)
Silicon-based electronics are steadily approaching their limits, and one wonders which material could give our devices the next big push. Graphene, the 2D sheet...
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