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A new plan seeking to exploit unconventional resources is focused on growing microscopical organisms capable of processing CO2 to provide a wide range of bio-materials. The research is currently carried out by experts from RWE Power, working in partnership with the staff from BRAIN, a biotechnology company, Busines... |
6 January 2012
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Every bride-to-be dreams about her over-the-top wedding, and the dress she is going to wear on that special day has to be one of a kind. For so many reasons, a second hand option shouldn't be rapidly dismissed by future wives who are keen on embracing earth-friendly values. One more thing: it's not actually... |
22 November 2011
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Scientists published a study in Nature Geoscience which shows the fact that rivers and other water surfaces breathe a significant amount of carbon dioxide. It seems that the quantity of CO2 which reaches the green layer of vegetation visits waterways before it ends up in the atmosphere.
According to the study, river... |
21 October 2011
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A group of investigators based at the Rice University has recently been awarded one of 16 grants from the US Department of Energy (DOE). The money are to be used for developing advanced technologies, capable of removing and storing carbon dioxide gas released from power plants.
At this time, this is one of the mos... |
21 September 2011
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A team of investigators from the University of Cambridge has recently discovered that a simple chemical reaction can make all the difference in determining how carbon dioxide spreads through underground aquifers.
Geologists define an aquifer as a layer of permeable rock or unconsolidated material that contains wat... |
7 May 2011
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) currently in Earth's atmosphere are enough to cause the world to reach a tipping point beyond which the effects of global warming and climate change can no longer be accounted for.Until now, various climate model... |
18 January 2011
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The ever rising CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are causing unstoppable effects, that will affect the climate at least until the year 3000, a new research published yesterday in the Advanced Online Publication of the journal Nature Geoscience, concluded.This new paper examines the inertia of carbon dioxide... |
10 January 2011
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In case you did not know, CO2 doesn't just contribute to global warming, it can also be a useful product, especially in the chemical industry, where it can be used to produce urea (a fertilizer), methanol (fuel additive) and salicylic acid (ingredient of aspirin). A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Instit... |
4 January 2011
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The University of Greenwich’s School of Architecture & Construction could create 'living' materials to cover buildings and help fight the effects of climate change, by using ethical synthetic biology.For the development of materials that could produce water in the desert or biofuels out of sunlight, a... |
5 November 2010
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The Earth's greenhouse effect is mainly caused by water vapors and clouds, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling research shows that it is ultimately the carbon dioxide who is in control of the planet's temperature.A study led by Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) co-author Gavin Schmidt, acce... |
15 October 2010
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A new study carried out by Tom Guilderson, a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and colleagues, suggests that CO2 release may speed up the melting following an ice age.Guilderson used radiocarbon dating to trace the pathway of carbon dioxide released fr... |
27 August 2010
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According to a new series of investigations, it would appear that humans managed a difficult-to-aAchieve feat, and namely obscure the natural carbon dioxide (CO2) cycle taking place in the Brazos.This is Texas' longest river, and the 11th longest in the United States, spanning a length of more than 2,060 km (128... |
16 August 2010
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One of the main goals for research in the United States today is the conversion of carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuel-powered electrical plants into useful products. As part of this endeavor, the US Department of Energy (DOE) is providing $106 million (£68 million) in research grant money to six companies th... |
29 July 2010
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One of the environmental priorities is to capture and store greenhouse gas, while implementing ways of producing less. If carbon-capture technology is added to conventional coal plants, greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced. The problem is cost.The standard method of collecting CO2 increases electricity costs by 80... |
23 July 2010
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With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, humans began putting more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The amount of the greenhouse gas has been increasing steadily since then, and is currently at very high levels, with billions of tons being emitted annually. In addition to the global warming effect th... |
29 March 2010
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A new scientific study, published in this week's issue of the respected journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), outlines the best sites on the East Coast of the United States to store carbon dioxide (CO2). Researchers say that the buried volcanic rocks that exist under New York, New Jerse... |
5 January 2010
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In the third morning of the 2009 UN Climate Summit on the issue of global warming, analysts revealed that a large split appeared between developing nations. While some of them think that a legally binding deal tougher than the 1997 Kyoto Protocol should be set in place, richer, developing states such as China oppose ... |
9 December 2009
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Compared to the 1990s, this decade has seen an accelerated rise in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels globally, a group of researchers announces. In spite of increased awareness and some efforts of mitigating their effects, greenhouse gases, which have been tied to global warming, have increased their annual rate by more th... |
25 November 2009
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Experts from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) announce the development of a device that is able to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of fuel, through nothing more than the action of sunlight. With this achievement, it may be possible in the near future to tu... |
23 November 2009
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In the first large-scale study to ever prove so, experts at the Cardiff University, in the United Kingdom, determined that the decline in CO2 levels in the planet's atmosphere some 34 million years ago led to the formation of the ice caps in Antarctica. Scientists from the University of Bristol and the Texas A&M... |
14 September 2009
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Experts at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) have recently discovered in a new study that high levels of the dangerous greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), which is largely blamed for global warming, also cause numerous mutations in fish. Among these, they high... |
26 June 2009
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The rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are generally considered to be the main cause of global warming and climate change, with numerous studies linking the two directly. Still, there are those who refuse to listen to reason and science, and who believe that the levels of CO2 in the air are &ld... |
22 June 2009
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Though the Martian ice has nothing to do with its counterpart back on Earth, astronomers have noticed that the first signs of heating have occurred. The seasonal carbon dioxide polar caps, which are formed around the poles in the midst of winter, have begun to melt and even vaporize directly from solid “ice&rdq... |
1 April 2009
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Truly, the world of microbes and bacteria is one of many wonders, as naturalists say. It would appear that most species of such microorganisms have been “born” with special skills that make researchers' eyes water. For instance, a new discovery pinpoints a species of microbes that is able to turn wat... |
31 March 2009
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Along with the nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide, methane is one of the three gases that has been directly linked to the intensification of the global warming and climate change phenomena throughout the world. And while, sadly, CO2 levels continue to climb on account of all the fossil fuel that is being burnt at this ... |
11 March 2009
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Breaking loose from its wrong, Bush-era policies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now plans to ask all companies in the United States to reveal exactly how much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) they emit in the atmosphere. This is a first for the federal agency, which has been tied up by the previ... |
11 March 2009
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According to climate change models covering the Ancient history of the Earth, the Antarctic became covered with the ice sheets it's losing today some 33.5 million years ago, when the overall climate cooled significantly and the planet got converted from a greenhouse to an “ice house.” In the February... |
27 February 2009
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International economists and UN representatives say that $400 billion is the sum needed to avert the effects of global warming and climate change on our planet, and to ensure that future generations will have a place to live in, without having to experience a world without animals, with a few acres of forest, and wit... |
11 February 2009
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Google is disputing claims of a high search carbon footprint following a report authored by US physicist Alex Wissner-Gross. The Mountain View-search giant indicated that a single Google Search produced nowhere near the 7 grams of CO2, as Wissner-Gross had pointed out. In this regard, the company made its own calcula... |
12 January 2009
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In the light of the latest dispute over the impact of the carbon dioxide on the global warming and the fate of the planet's climate, NASA is poised to send a new probe set to provide accurate measurements on the levels and dynamics of CO2. This specific aspect, namely how much CO2 exists in the atmosphere and wh... |
10 December 2008
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The construction of new coal-powered power plants in the US has now grinded to an almost complete standstill, because tighter carbon capture and storage regulations are in place in most states. And because most builders cannot afford the technology needed for sequestration, they simply prefer not to build the plant a... |
5 December 2008
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The recent Automotive News Green Car Conference held at The Diamond Center at Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, Michigan, stressed on the fast pace of gas cost and on the decrease of vehicles' carbon footprints. Major automotive issues related to lower emissions, fuel saving, enhanced safety or higher degrees of... |
19 November 2008
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SolFocus, a Californian provider of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar energy solutions, has recently announced the signing of a $103 million (€80 million) deal with a Spanish customer, EMPE Solar, to install more than 10 megawatts worth of CPV solar power projects throughout Spain in 2 years’ time. It ... |
5 November 2008
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A company from California, Carbon Sciences, has managed to effectively turn CO2 emissions into chemical compounds that could be reused in fuels or other such useful industrial products. It seems that the recent successful technological discovery concerning the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is not... |
13 October 2008
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During the 1980s, the theory of ocean acidification as a result of the greenhouse effect arose and has been attempted a demonstration ever since. The recent atmospheric carbon dioxide level measurements proved it, as well as its impact on oceans. Besides the negative results of the acidification of the planet's ... |
1 October 2008
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Canadian researchers from the University of Calgary have come up with a new device which captures the carbon dioxide from the surrounding atmosphere. The machine is built from materials that don't belong to the high-tech, but rather to the “near-commercial” technology.David Keith, Canada Research Cha... |
1 October 2008
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People all over the world mourn over the ice loss of the northern planetary pole. But recent research indicated that this might actually be a good thing in some ways, since it leaves more room for phytoplankton to expand. This, in turn, produces chlorophyll, which helps assimilate sun energy and absorbs atmospheric C... |
12 September 2008
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Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound composed of one carbon and two oxygen atoms. It is often referred to by its formula, CO2. It is present in the Earth's atmosphere at a low concentration of approximately 0.04% and it's an important greenhouse gas. In its solid state, it is called dry ice. It is a major... |
19 April 2007
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This is the process that fuels life on Earth: plants simply mix carbon dioxide from the air, water and sunlight to turn them into biomass and oxygen. Chemists would also like to be able to use CO2 as a carbon source just like in the photosynthesis for synthesizing organic reactions, but this is not as simple as it mi... |
17 March 2007
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