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Stories about: Carnegie Institution

Advanced Carbon-Mapping Method Developed in Hawaii A collaboration of American researchers has recently created a new type of carbon-mapping technology, that they say can be used to map the reserves of the chemical in Hawaii's forests. The group details its achievement in the latest online issue of the scientific journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environ... 15 March 2011 11:04 GMT Plans to Stabilize the Climate Are a Necessity Geoengineering, a concept that may have sounded like science-fiction a couple of decades ago, is now being seriously considered as a last-resort option, in the fight against global warming. Though they may seem extreme, solutions like injecting the atmosphere with specific particles of dust may be the last things sta... 11 November 2008 09:21 GMT New Technique Creates Better and Larger Diamonds A new method for producing artificial diamonds has been developed by the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution. Called chemical vapor deposition (CVD), it enables the science team to virtually grow the diamonds they need for their research from crystals. The process takes place at normal pressure and doe... 28 October 2008 11:14 GMT