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Turning palm waste into a machine-learning-optimized CO2 capture material
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
Led by Dr. Azam Taufik Mohd Din from USM's School of Chemical Engineering, the team developed a novel adsorbent named OPA-KOH(1:2) by treating palm ash with aci...
Boosting solar CO2 conversion with strain tuned perovskite nanowires
Sep 22, 2025 (SPX)
The team addressed a persistent limitation in photocatalysis: the fast recombination of light-generated electrons and holes that reduces reaction efficiency. Th...
Limited safe carbon storage could lower warming by less than 1 degree
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
The research, published in Nature, estimates a global safe storage limit of around 1,460 billion tons of CO2, much lower than previous 14,000 gigatonne estimate...
Ocean heat surge weakens global carbon absorption
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
That year, surface waters warmed dramatically worldwide, especially in the North Atlantic, alongside a strong El Nino event in the Pacific. Using global oceanic...
Treat carbon storage like 'scarce resource': scientists
Sep 03, 2025 (AFP)
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is complex and costly, and critics say it cannot meet the urgent need to slash planet-heating emissions and meet the world's cl...
World's first commercial CO2 'graveyard' opens in Norway
Aug 25, 2025 (AFP)
The world's first commercial service offering carbon storage off Norway's coast has carried out its inaugural CO2 injection into the North Sea seabed, the North...
Atomic beams diffracted through solids open new frontier in materials research
Aug 25, 2025 (SPX)
This breakthrough opens the door to less destructive analysis methods for studying materials, offering potential applications in nanotechnology, biomedicine, an...
Low carbon taxes often fail to target emissions reduction
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
Lead author Johan Lilliestam explained that such policies were often designed to raise revenue, reform tax systems, or meet international expectations rather th...
Carbon 'offsets' aren't working. Here's a way to improve nature-based climate solutions
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
Efforts to slow the climate crisis have long sought to harness nature, often through carbon "offsets," aimed at bolstering forests, wetlands, and agriculture, b...
Deep-sea fish confirmed as a significant source of ocean carbonate
Jul 25, 2025 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science studied the blackbelly rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus), a...
MicroCarb satellite launch marks new era in urban carbon tracking
Jul 25, 2025 (SPX)
With GBP 15 million in UK funding, the mission boosts Britain's leadership in climate and space innovation. Orbiting at 650km, the satellite uses advanced city-...
Chemistry breakthroughs open new frontiers in industrial carbon capture
Jul 25, 2025 (SPX)
Heavy industries such as steel, cement, aluminium, chemicals, and oil and gas are responsible for 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite the ava...
MicroCarb satellite launches to map global carbon dioxide emissions from space
Jul 25, 2025 (SPX)
Co-financed by CNES, the UK Space Agency, the European Commission, and the French government through the Investments for the Future Program (PIA), the mission u...
Peatland restoration shows measurable climate benefits in under a decade
Jul 14, 2025 (SPX)
Lead author Iuliia Burdun, a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, explained that NASA's long-term satellite image series were used to track changes in p...
Low-Cost Method to Remove CO2 from Air Using Cold Temps, Common Materials
Jul 08, 2025 (SPX)
While promising technologies for direct air capture (DAC) have emerged over the past decade, high capital and energy costs have hindered DAC implementation. How...
Consortium plans global shift toward net negative carbon economy
Jun 30, 2025 (SPX)
The New Carbon Economy Consortium (NCEC) will convene its annual meeting at the University of Exeter from June 29 to July 1, bringing together universities, nat...
Rock on: how crushed stone could help fight climate change
Jun 24, 2025 (AFP)
The technique is called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) and aims to speed up the natural capture and storage of carbon dioxide -- a planet-warming greenhouse gas...
Construction begins on giant CO2 capture facility in Sweden
Jun 12, 2025 (AFP)
The new plant will have the capacity to capture and store more than 800,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, which is more than the annual emissions from the Swedish cap...
Mapping Ireland's peatlands to help cut carbon emissions
Jun 11, 2025 (AFP)
Ireland is pockmarked with patches of dark brown peat soil that make up at least 20 percent of the land cover, according to Eve Daly, a geophysicist at the Univ...
Deep mantle carbon flow influences diamond formation and craton stability
May 22, 2025 (SPX)
Using high-pressure experiments that simulate depths from 250 to 660 kilometers, the team examined how carbonatite melts from subducted tectonic slabs interact ...
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