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Radical CO2 removal projects could be a risky business
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Radical new ways of removing CO2 from the atmosphere could prove to be a risky business - according to an environmental scientist at the University of East Angl...
Graphene decharging and molecular shielding
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
Joint theoretical and experimental study suggested that graphene sheets efficiently shield chemical interactions. One of the promising applications of this phen...
Discovery of the specific properties of graphite-based carbon materials
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
University of Tsukuba Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences Associate Professor Takahiro Kondo and Professor Junji Nakamura, in cooperation with Researcher Dongh...
Scientists guide gold nanoparticles to form 'diamond' superlattices
Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)
Using bundled strands of DNA to build Tinkertoy-like tetrahedral cages, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have devise...
Graphene is strong, but is it tough?
Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)
Graphene, a material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms, has been touted as the strongest material known to exist, 200 times stronger than steel, ligh...
An alternative to platinum: Iron-nitrogen compounds as catalysts in graphene
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Fuel cells convert the chemical energy stored in hydrogen (H2) into electrical energy by electrochemically "combusting" hydrogen gas with oxygen (O2) from the a...
Breakthrough in continuous monitoring of CO2 leaks from storage sites could assist CCS
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
Carbon capture and storage projects rely on effective monitoring of injected CO2. However, the high number of necessary surveys makes this a costly endeavor. A ...
Graphene oxide 'paper' changes with strain
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
The same slip-and-stick mechanism that leads to earthquakes is at work on the molecular level in nanoscale materials, where it determines the shear plasticity o...
Cost burden of Quebec's carbon market seen as modest
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
The cost burden of Quebec's carbon-pricing policy, is likely to be modest across income groups and industries, according to a McGill University research team. T...
Rivers, lakes impact ability of forests to store carbon
Dec 25, 2015 (SPX)
Forests help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by storing it in trees, but a sizeable amount of the greenhouse gas actually escapes through the soil and...
Diamonds may be the key to future NMR/MRI technologies
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have ...
Rapid growth in carbon dioxide emissions breaks in 2015
Dec 12, 2015 (SPX)
Despite global economic growth in 2015, worldwide emissions from fossil fuels are projected to decline by 0.6% this year. A report released by the Global Carbon...
Strongest sinks of carbon are in dynamic landscapes
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
The strongest forest carbon sinks in eastern forests are within landscapes not completely dominated by forests. Using a new framework for forest carbon accounti...
Satellites show global plant growth is not keeping up with CO2 emissions
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
Because plants need carbon dioxide to grow, scientists have expected rising atmospheric CO2 to substantially enhance plant growth, offsetting a portion of human...
Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbon
Dec 08, 2015 (SPX)
As talks of global warming are once again making Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbons, scientists have renewed their efforts to understand h...
How finance ministers could fall in love with carbon pricing
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
"Finance ministers are facing strong demand for public investments in education, security or transport - pricing CO2 turns out to be a suitable means of raising...
Researchers find new phase of carbon, make diamond at room temperature
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a new phase of solid carbon, called Q-carbon, which is distinct from the known phases of graphi...
ORNL process could be white lightning to electronics industry
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
A new era of electronics and even quantum devices could be ushered in with the fabrication of a virtually perfect single layer of "white graphene," according to...
Lazy microbes are key for soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
The world's soils store on the order of 2500 gigatons of carbon, which is three times the amount in the atmosphere (or equivalent to 9170 gigatons of CO2). Yet ...
Rapid plankton growth in ocean seen as sign of carbon dioxide loading
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
A microscopic marine alga is thriving in the North Atlantic to an extent that defies scientific predictions, suggesting swift environmental change as a result o...
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