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Dire future etched in the past: CO2 at 3-million year-old levels

Apr 05, 2019 (AFP)

The last time that CO2 hit 400 parts per million (ppm) Greenland was ice free and trees grew at the edge of Antactica. It was long thought that today's greenhou...

CO2 growth in 2018 was fourth highest on record

Mar 22, 2019 (UPI)

On Jan. 1, 2018, the the average concentration of atmospheric CO2 measured 407.05 parts per million. Twelve months later, the average measured 409.92 parts per ...

Carbon Engineering concludes major private investment round to develop CO2 capture technology

Mar 22, 2019 (SPX)

This $68M financing will allow CE to commercialize and enter mainstream markets with its fully demonstrated DAC technology that is able to capture and purify at...

Study: Thawing alpine permafrost a stealth source of CO2

Mar 21, 2019 (UPI)

In a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications, scientists presented evidence that Colorado's Front Range tundra emits more CO2 than it abso...

CO2 mineralization in geologically common rocks for carbon storage

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Geological trapping can play a major role here. Our planet's underground rocks and sediments offer a vast potential space for long-term carbon storage. To suppo...

Diving into Earth's interior helps scientists unravel secrets of diamond formation

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

One major difference between Earth and Venus is the existence of active plate tectonics on Earth, which make our environment unique within our solar system. But...

Coda waves reveal carbon dioxide storage plume

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

"We usually don't look at coda waves, we usually throw them out," said Tieyuan Zhu, professor of geophysics, Penn State. "If we look at a carbon dioxide plume u...

Chinese engineers look to graphene to drive deep space exploration

Feb 26, 2019 (XNA)

Graphene, which is just one atom thick, could enable light-powered propulsion technology leading to fuel-free spacecraft. Traditional spacecraft depend on chemi...

Graphite offers up new quantum surprise

Feb 26, 2019 (SPX)

They have also found that the material behaves differently depending on whether it contains odd or even number of graphene layers - even when the number of laye...

Graphene 'sandwich' key to new electronics

Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)

Since its inception, scientists have tried to exploit graphene to produce nano-sized electronics. However, since graphene is only an atom thick, all atoms are e...

Scientists discovered where black carbon comes from in the Arctic in winter and summer

Feb 18, 2019 (SPX)

Black carbon (BC) aerosols are formed under incomplete fuel combustion in diesel engines, as well as during wildfires, wood burning in wood-burning stoves, bric...

Carbon gas storage cavern is the best way to obtain clean energy from a fossil fuel

Feb 14, 2019 (SPX)

The innovation, the result of a patent deposited in 2018, consists of injecting the CO2 and CH4 that comes from wells during oil extraction into salt caverns as...

Laser-induced graphene gets tough, with help

Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)

The labs of Rice University chemist James Tour and Christopher Arnusch, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, introduced a batch of LIG c...

Researchers create first carbon fibers with uniform porous structure

Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)

Carbon fibers, already known as a high-performing engineering material, are widely used in the aerospace and automotive industries. One application is the shell...

Capturing carbon to fight climate change is dividing environmentalists

Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)

Some 626 environmental groups, including Greenpeace, the Center for Biological Diversity and 350, recently laid out their vision in a letter they sent to U.S. l...

Graphene crinkles can be used as molecular zippers

Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)

Now, researchers from Brown University's School of Engineering have explained how the phenomenon works, and that explanation could pave the way for a new type o...

Large, stable pieces of graphene produced with unique edge pattern

Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)

Not only that, the method they used was even comparatively simple. Their research, conducted within the framework of collaborative research centre 953 - Synthet...

Carbon-capture technology scrubs CO2 from power plants like scuba-diving gear

Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)

Soda lime is a solid off-white mixture of calcium and sodium hydroxides used in scuba rebreathers, submarines, anesthesia, and other closed breathing environmen...

Researchers wild about zigzags

Jan 30, 2019 (SPX)

Bay, fjord, cove, armchair and zigzag - when chemists use terms such as these, it is clear that they are referring to nanographene. More specifically, the shape...

JILA researchers uncover quantum structure of buckyballs

Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)

Fully understanding and controlling this molecule's quantum details could lead to new scientific fields and applications, such as an entire quantum computer con...