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After an extensive, 10-year-old review of data from NASA and other sources, a researchers was able to determine that clouds play an important role in global warming, in the sense that they amplify temperature rise generated by the release of carbon dioxide into the planet's atmosphere. The finding brings a new a... |
17 December 2010
08:18 GMT |
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At this point, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies are getting a lot of attention from authorities and researchers alike, as well as a large number of feasibility studies meant to assess their true potential. The results of such a study were recently announced by the Department of Interior. DOI official say... |
16 December 2010
05:46 GMT |
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One of the most widely-researched methods of disposing of excess carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is to literally sweep it under the rug, inside underground caverns and deposits. However, a new study suggests that this is not necessarily the wisest thing to do. While combating global warming should undoubted... |
15 December 2010
06:45 GMT |
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As the Earth is getting warmer, climate scientists draw attention to a situation that has received very little attention over the years – that of peatlands. These soils could over the coming years turn into veritable compost bombs, capable of releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmo... |
2 December 2010
09:49 GMT |
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Using data collected by the NASA Cassini spacecraft during a March flyby, experts were able to conclude that the Saturnine moon Rhea, the second-largest orbiting the gas giant, is surrounded by a carbon and oxygen-rich atmosphere.The wispy layer could only be identified after the probe swept very close to the body�... |
26 November 2010
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Researchers were disappointed to find that the drop in carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations predicted for last year was a lot lower than anyone expected. The same trend is most likely in store for 2010 as well, experts say, which means that we could see record CO2 levels being set yet again.From the record levels achi... |
22 November 2010
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The new flyby that the EPOXI spacecraft conducted around comet Hartley 2 demonstrated to researchers that this particular space body is fueled by dry ice, a finding that surprised experts. Astronomers say that many other comets may utilize the same fuel for their jets. This is precisely the type of discovery that exp... |
11 November 2010
06:03 GMT |
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Scientists have been fascinated with carbon nanotubes ever since the material was first obtained, and they have been looking for cheaper and more effective was of producing it ever since. Now, researchers at MIT managed to do just that, while at the same time making the process a lot more environmentally-friendly.Nan... |
10 November 2010
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More that 470 million years ago, during the early Paleozoic era, the first plants on Earth teamed up with soil fungi, in order to colonize the land.This discovery was made by scientists at the University of Sheffield, along with experts from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Imperial College London and the University o... |
3 November 2010
09:34 GMT |
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According to a team of investigators, it would appear that the gully-like formations that various missions to the Red Planet identified on its surface were most likely produced by frozen carbon dioxide, and not by water as previously stipulated.The team that made the discoveries says that not all of the gullies can b... |
30 October 2010
03:49 GMT |
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The six-astronaut crew aboard the International Space Station now has an additional piece of hardware for producing water aboard the orbital facility, which was activated only recently. With the new instrument, concerns about water availability have decreased aboard the space lab, where astronauts are heavily depende... |
26 October 2010
10:54 GMT |
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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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Renowned scientists speaking at the 2010 World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue, in De Moines, Iowa, have teamed up to promote a brand new solution to improve crops and store carbon dioxide at the same time.Our world today needs a radical transformation in the agricultural sector, so that it can deal with climate change, ... |
15 October 2010
03:21 GMT |
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A new study, funded by DONG Energy (UK) Ltd. and Ikon Science Ltd. and presented today at a conference on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, in London, concluded that oil recovery in the North Sea, using CO2, could worth £150 billion ($ 240 billion) and become the next... |
14 October 2010
09:20 GMT |
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Over the past few year, the idea that geoengineering is a viable solution for averting the effects of global warming has garnered a lot of support, but a new study suggest the enthusiasm was premature.There are several methods to go about modifying the environment at a large scale so that temperatures drop. One of th... |
12 October 2010
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A team of investigators has recently determined that methane reservoirs can release significant amounts of methane gas into the atmosphere, sometimes at levels comparable to reservoirs in tropical areas. The dangerous greenhouse gas, which is about 25 percent more potent in terms of the warming effect than carbon dio... |
11 October 2010
06:41 GMT |
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According to a new analysis, it would appear that the world will exceed the maximum amount of greenhouse gas emissions that can be put into the atmosphere without causing disastrous climate change by more than a third by 2020.At this point, the international scientific community has pout forth some fairly clear-cut f... |
6 October 2010
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A viable solution for reducing global warming by storing carbon dioxide could be having forests of genetically altered tress and plants, that would capture some billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere every year, suggests estimates published in the October issue of BioScience.Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National... |
2 October 2010
06:33 GMT |
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For many years, researchers around the world have been looking for various methods of removing carbon from the air and then storing it away, and now experts at MIT have developed a groundbreaking solution to this problem.A team of experts has developed a new technique that allows for the dangerous greenhouse gas carb... |
23 September 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Despite the general belief, working from home and shopping on the Internet could actually increase carbon emissions rather than reduce them, according to a recent study.“We hear a lot about the environmental benefits achieved as a result of working from home, however, on closer inspection it does appear that an... |
21 September 2010
09:54 GMT |
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A team of expert has recently published the results of a new study, which shed more light onto why methane concentrations in the Martian atmosphere get depleted at an abnormally-high speed. One of the first things researchers noticed when the first chemical analysis instruments were trained on the Martian atmosphere ... |
21 September 2010
03:31 GMT |
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Over the past few years, a consensus has been growing within political, economic, and scientific circles, as to the fact that geoengineering may ultimately become the only way to fight global warming. The thing about this approach is that it's not very safe, and also that the public has been largely kept in the ... |
13 September 2010
08:11 GMT |
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The iron-making process is very toxic for the environment and it contributes to climate change so scientists from the United States and China have found a new production method, with zero pollution.Iron metal is produced in the same way since the industrial revolution: iron ore is melted at temperatures over 2000°... |
10 September 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency say that they managed to derive new data from the information sent back by the Phoenix Mars Lander mission. They say that water and tectonic activities may have existed on the Red Planet more recently than originally thought.The investigators say that the lander managed to iden... |
10 September 2010
01:47 GMT |
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Around the world, authorities are beginning to take steps towards reducing the amount of carbon dioxide vehicles circulating on public roads put out, but their efforts are being hampered by large vehicles. The conclusion belongs to a new study, which shows that CO2 emissions increase with car and engine size, AlphaGa... |
9 September 2010
11:29 GMT |
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'Dry water' is a substance that looks like powdered sugar and new research shows that it might just be the new way of absorbing and storing carbon dioxide.The substance was discovered in 1968 and scientists thought of ways of using it in the cosmetics industry.Then, in 2006, it was rediscovered by scientist... |
26 August 2010
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New satellite data shows that carbon storage by plants is decreasing, in spite of the climate warming, say ecologists Maosheng Zhao and Steve Running at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, in a paper published today in Science.Normally, as temperatures rose during the last decades, so did the amount of ca... |
20 August 2010
08:52 GMT |
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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
11:08 GMT |
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In a development that could see farmers making a change for the better in their farming practices, experts at the K. Kellogg Biological Station are currently working on producing a tool that could see workers and small land owners enter the carbon credit market as well. This is the place where greenhouse gases are be... |
9 August 2010
09:32 GMT |
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Bio-Bug is a VW Beetle modified by The Greenfuel Company to work on methane gas produced by the sewage treatment process. The project is a collaboration between the Bath-based company, GENeco, the University of Bath and the South West Regional Development Agency. This is an innovative project that wants to encourage ... |
9 August 2010
09:19 GMT |
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Biochar is a special type of charcoal, which experts use to treat soils. When the stuff is applied to the land, it acts as a sponge, trapping and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) that would otherwise make it into the atmosphere. But a new study shows that treating soils with biochar has an additional unexpected positive ... |
2 August 2010
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In a new scientific investigation, scientists in Australia were able to determine that the best way to capture vast amounts of the dangerous greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is to turn to reforestation. They say that this is more efficient than installing the already-controversial softwood monoculture plantations that e... |
30 July 2010
10:24 GMT |
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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
05:27 GMT |
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Algae are starting to more and more preoccupy scientists, as strains can potentially produce 10 times or more fuel than the corn used in making ethanol or the soybeans that produce biodiesel. They also can be produced basically anywhere, so food production is not likely to be affected. As algae feed on carbon dioxide... |
26 July 2010
08:20 GMT |
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Some scientists expressed enthusiasm at the idea that the melting ice caps around the Arctic could also have positive effects on the global environment. They argued that, even if climate patterns would indeed be disrupted following the ice caps breaking up, the surface of the ocean would increase. This should have be... |
23 July 2010
05:18 GMT |
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Agriculture has for a long time been known to be one of the most important contributors to the global warming effect our planet is currently experiencing. Right next to the food industry, farming the lands produces a high percentage of the toxic chemicals that promote climate change, and endanger millions of people w... |
15 June 2010
09:56 GMT |
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A group of investigators is currently working on discovering materials that could be used to readily absorb carbon dioxide. The work is being carried out in order to innovate the carbon capture and storage industry (CCS), which seeks to trap the dangerous greenhouse gas in smokestacks, before it's released into ... |
27 May 2010
08:45 GMT |
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Most of you have heard by now about the damages that carbon dioxide can produce in our planet's upper atmosphere. But this particular chemical is getting so much attention not because it's the most dangerous of all greenhouse gases, but simply because massive amounts of it are emitted into the air each year... |
6 May 2010
05:50 GMT |
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As common knowledge has it, plants and oceans are the main engines that absorb the dangerous greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from our planet's atmosphere. Increased concentrations of the gas have been linked to the global warming effect that causes climate change, and so caring for Earth's natural ... |
5 May 2010
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Between January 4 and March 8 this year, an international team of experts conducted the Wilkes Land Glacial History Expedition in Antarctica, as part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). During the study, the scientists collected ice core samples from the location, which they then transported back to the ... |
30 April 2010
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For many years, researchers believed that, with the rise in global temperatures our planet is currently experiencing, microbes in the ground would boost their greenhouse gas production as well, contributing to climate change. But new data from American investigators seems to suggest that the influence of these microo... |
26 April 2010
02:50 GMT |
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Using their Chile-based Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) managed to conduct a unique survey of Neptune's moon Triton. The investigation, which was made in infrared wavelengths, revealed an astounding fact, namely that the southern hemisphere of the small space ... |
7 April 2010
17:41 GMT |
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Even from its earliest stages of its existence, Earth has been covered in water. Geologists know this from ample sources, and they believe that there is no reason to doubt the geological findings. However, for the past 50 years or so, scientists have been puzzled by a strange question. How could there be liquid ocean... |
1 April 2010
02:25 GMT |
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A patch of seemingly-inhospitable terrain in Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab Emirates, will within 5 to 10 years become home to the first city in the world that will be completely carbon-neutral. The goal is to construct a city of about 50,000 without relaying on dirty technologies and fossil fuels at all. Given t... |
29 March 2010
03:36 GMT |
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In a new scientific review of more than 439 studies, published in the latest issue of the esteemed journal Nature, experts determined that the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by soils around the world had been increasing constantly over the past decades. The finding is very disturbing, as carbon dioxide is considere... |
25 March 2010
03:13 GMT |
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A group of experts is currently working on investigating a method of using the vast amounts of carbon dioxide gas that are emitted around the world for creating alternative fuels. The research is centered on developing advanced, porous materials that could eventually be used to store the excess CO2 gas, which th... |
24 March 2010
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Scientists are currently seriously considering using prescribed burns to manage at least some portions of the forests in the United States. They say that this method, which relies on burning certain swaths of land on purpose, has the ability to control the spreading of wildfires, and to therefore reduce the carbon fo... |
18 March 2010
04:51 GMT |
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A site at Hunterston, near Largs, in the United Kingdom, will become the place where the first experimental coal-fired power plant outfitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology will be built. The earliest stages of the planning process for the new facility have begun today, and, if the project is complet... |
15 March 2010
10:02 GMT |
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Whales, a class of animals that includes the largest creatures currently alive on our planet, are known in the scientific community for the ability they have to store carbon dioxide in their bodies. They apparently do so very efficiently, as a new study demonstrates that the last century of whaling has had a consider... |
26 February 2010
03:28 GMT |
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According to the United Nations, the non-binding pledges that nations made following the failed Copenhagen climate summit are insufficient to prevent an increase of two degrees Celsius in global temperatures over the coming century. Some 60 countries have submitted their emission-reduction targets to the UN as per th... |
23 February 2010
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