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New research exploits extraordinary properties of graphene
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
Innovative new research led by the University of Exeter has demonstrated how the extraordinary properties of graphene can be exploited to create artificial stru...
Graphene microphone outperforms traditional nickel
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a graphene based microphone nearly 32 times more sensitive than microphones of standard nickel-based construction. The researchers, ba...
Global growth in CO2 emissions stagnates
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
After a decade of rapid growth in global CO2 emissions, which increased at an average annual rate of 4%, much smaller increases were registered in 2012 (0.8%), ...
Britain axes 1 billion pound carbon capture scheme
Nov 27, 2015 (AFP)
Britain has quietly cancelled a competition to develop carbon capture and storage technology, reversing support for a tool intended to help combat global warmin...
Electron partitioning process in graphene observed
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
Graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite with a carbon-layered structure, has been drawing much attention because of its abundant electronic properties and t...
Peatland Code could save more than 200 million tons of carbon dioxide
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
A new Government-backed code which could slash UK carbon dioxide emissions by 220 million tonnes and protect rare wildlife by restoring moors, bogs and mires ha...
Pioneering research boosts graphene revolution
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
Pioneering new research by the University of Exeter could pave the way for miniaturised optical circuits and increased internet speeds, by helping accelerate th...
Researchers design and patent graphene biosensors
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional crystal, which was obtained experimentally and investigated regarding its unique chemical and physical properties. I...
Ultrasensitive sensors made from boron-doped graphene
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
Ultrasensitive gas sensors based on the infusion of boron atoms into graphene - a tightly bound matrix of carbon atoms - may soon be possible, according to an i...
IEA praises Canadian carbon capture initiative
Nov 09, 2015 (UPI)
The launch in Canada of the world's first carbon capture project for oil sands is a welcome statement from an industry under the microscope, the IEA said. With ...
Scientists research deep-sea hydrothermal vents, find carbon-removing properties
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientist Aron Stubbins joined a team of researchers to determine how hydrothermal vents influence ocea...
Deep Earth is likely filled with diamonds, scientists say
Nov 03, 2015 (UPI)
Diamonds are much more common than scientists thought. Researchers at John Hopkins University predict deep Earth to be littered with diamonds. Until now, scient...
Graphene flakes as an ultra-fast stopwatch
Oct 29, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), working with colleagues from the USA and Germany, have developed a new optical detector from grap...
Deep-sea bacteria could help neutralize greenhouse gas
Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)
A type of bacteria plucked from the bottom of the ocean could be put to work neutralizing large amounts of industrial carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, ...
Cobalt atoms on graphene a powerful combo
Oct 23, 2015 (SPX)
Graphene doped with nitrogen and augmented with cobalt atoms has proven to be an effective, durable catalyst for the production of hydrogen from water, accordin...
Carbon canopy
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
Around the world, from small towns to the biggest cities, civic soldiers in the battle against global warming are striving to cut carbon emissions. One oft-used...
Alaskan boreal forest fires release more carbon than the trees can absorb
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
A new analysis of fire activity in Alaska's Yukon Flats finds that so many forest fires are occurring there that the area has become a net exporter of carbon to...
Carbon sequestration in soil: The potential underfoot
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
A new study published in the journal Global Environmental Change projects that carbon sequestration in European cropland could store between 9 and 38 megatons o...
Plant sugar transporter involved in carbon sequestration
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
Like humans, plants are surrounded by and closely associated with microbes. The majority of these microbes are beneficial, but some can cause devastating diseas...
New crystal captures carbon from humid gas
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
A new material with micropores might be a way to fight climate change. Scientists have created crystals that capture carbon dioxide much more efficiently than p...
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