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A graphene superconductor that plays more than one tune
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
"Usually, when someone wants to study how electrons interact with each other in a superconducting quantum phase versus an insulating phase, they would need to l...
Industry and campaigners spar over S.Africa's carbon tax
Jul 17, 2019 (AFP)
The new tax, the first of its type in Africa, was cautiously introduced last month in the first of several gradual steps and is scheduled to come into full forc...
Humanity's climate 'carbon budget' dwindling fast
Jul 17, 2019 (AFP)
The 2015 Paris climate treaty enjoins the world to set that bar at "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) in order to avoid an upsurge in killer heat...
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 gets first data
Jul 13, 2019 (JPL)
The first image shows carbon dioxide, or CO2, over the United States during OCO-3's first few days of science data collection. These initial measurements are co...
Gene identified that will help develop plants to fight climate change
Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)
In addition, the findings, published in Cell on July 11, 2019, will also allow researchers to develop plants that can help combat climate change as part of Salk...
Producing graphene from carbon dioxide
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
A working group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has now reported on this unusual application in the ChemSusChem journal. They are using carbon dioxid...
In Yakutia, Russia digs for diamonds in permafrost
Jul 07, 2019 (AFP)
In the city of Mirny, the sun shines almost continuously during the region's white night season in early July, with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius. B...
Scientists teleport information inside a diamond
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
The researchers published their results on June 28, 2019 in Communications Physics. "Quantum teleportation permits the transfer of quantum information into an o...
Branching out: Making graphene from gum trees
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
The new approach by researchers from RMIT University (Australia) and the National Institute of Technology, Warangal (India), uses Eucalyptus bark extract and is...
First snapshots of trapped CO2 molecules shed new light on carbon capture
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
The images, made at the Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Facilities, show two configurations of the CO2 molecule in its cage, in what scientists call a guest-host relation...
Court rejects Ontario challenge to Canada carbon tax
Jun 28, 2019 (AFP)
Ontario Court of Appeal Chief Justice George Strathy said in the split decision that the measure was "constitutional." "Parliament has determined that atmospher...
A sticky solution could improve carbon capture materials
Jun 24, 2019 (SPX)
They have developed a new material capable of capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) with the key ingredient being a common epoxy resin you probably ...
EU leaders to debate push for zero emissions by 2050
Jun 17, 2019 (AFP)
European Union leaders meeting Thursday and Friday in Brussels will debate the 2050 target of "climate neutrality" that the environmental group WWF says now has...
A metal-free, sustainable approach to CO2 reduction
Jun 17, 2019 (SPX)
Sustainability is a key goal in the development of next-generation catalysts for CO2 reduction. One promising approach that many teams are focusing on is a reac...
Bitcoin, Las Vegas have the same size carbon footprint
Jun 13, 2019 (UPI)
Bitcoin's carbon footprint, according to the new study, is roughly the same size as the carbon footprint of cities like Las Vegas and Hamburg, Germany. Bitcoin ...
Britain sets deadline for carbon neutrality by 2050
Jun 12, 2019 (AFP)
The new target was broadly welcomed across the political spectrum but environmental groups said it would require radical action to decarbonise the entire econom...
Japan sets carbon-neutral goal as UK plans climate laws
Jun 12, 2019 (AFP)
While Britain on Wednesday outlined plans for fast-track legislation that would reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, Japan's policy only pledges to meet...
Highest CO2 levels in human history recorded in Hawaii
Jun 04, 2019 (UPI)
During the month of May, CO2 levels averaged 414.8 parts per million -- levels not present on Earth in millions of years. CO2 levels typically peak on Mauna Loa...
Earth recycles ocean floor into diamonds
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
Traces of salt trapped in many diamonds show the stones are formed from ancient seabeds that became buried deep beneath the Earth's crust, according to new rese...
Coal-hungry S.Africa introduces carbon tax
May 27, 2019 (AFP)
The tax, a rare step for an emerging economy, will be levied from June 1 on greenhouse gases from fuel combustion and industrial processes and emissions. "Presi...
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