To Fight Climate Change, We Should Actually Add Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere
We should convert methane, a more powerful greenhouse gas, into CO2-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Car Company's Carbon Neutral Pledge Meets With Mixed Reviews
Daimler AG’s announcement drew praise, as well as criticism it is not ambitious enough-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Carbon dioxide from Silicon Valley affects the chemistry of Monterey Bay
(Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) Elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide in air flowing out to sea from Silicon Valley and the Salinas Valley could increase the amount of carbon dioxide dissolving in Monterey Bay waters by about 20 percen...
From 2D to 1D: Atomically quasi '1D' wires using a carbon nanotube template
(Tokyo Metropolitan University) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used carbon nanotube templates to produce nanowires of transition metal monochalcogenide (TMM), which are only 3 atoms wide in diameter. These are 50 times longer tha...
How inland waters 'breathe' carbon -- and what it means for global systems
(Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies ) A new Yale study reveals important insights into the factors that influence the release of greenhouse gases from rivers and streams, including a key relationship between storm events, ecology, and to...
Shrinking the carbon footprint of a chemical in everyday objects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT chemical engineers have devised an alternative approach to synthesizing epoxides, a type of chemical that is found in many products, including plastics, pharmaceuticals and textiles. Their approach could re...
The carbon offset market: Leveraging forest carbon's value in the Brazilian Amazon
(Dartmouth College) As companies seek and are required to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, the world's carbon markets are expanding. A government-run program in the Amazon rainforest in northwestern Brazil transforms forest carbon value in...
CO2 mineralization in geologically common rocks for carbon storage
(Kyushu University, I2CNER) An international research team led by Kyushu University modeled CO2 mineralization on a quartz (SiO2) surface to study the dynamics of geological trapping. In molecular dynamics simulations, CO2 interacted with SiO2 to for...
Coda waves reveal carbon dioxide storage plume
(Penn State) Pumping carbon dioxide into the ground to remove it from the atmosphere is one way to lower greenhouse gases, but keeping track of where that gas is, has been a difficult chore. Now, a team of researchers from Penn State and Lawrence Ber...
Columbia researcher designs data visualization of carbon footprints
(Data Science Institute at Columbia) A Columbia researcher affiliated with the Data Science Institute has created a data-visualization tool that shows the carbon footprints of hundreds of consumer products. The tool makes it easy for everyone to expl...