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Every atom counts in graphene formation
Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)
Like tiny ships finding port in a storm, carbon atoms dock with the greater island of graphene in a predictable manner. But until recent research by scientists ...
Up in the air: Heating by black carbon aerosol re-evaluated
Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)
Viewed as a potential target in the global effort to reduce climate change, atmospheric black carbon particles absorb significantly less sunlight than scientist...
Plants' fungi allies may not help store climate change's extra carbon
Aug 31, 2012 (SPX)
Fungi found in plants may not be the answer to mitigating climate change by storing additional carbon in soils as some previously thought, according to an inter...
Australia and EU to link emissions trading
Aug 28, 2012 (UPI)
Australia's carbon pricing scheme will link with the European Union's emissions trading plan, a government official announced. The move, announced by Australian...
A urine based 'potion' can act as a CO2 absorbent
Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)
The ocean, the ground, rocks and trees act as carbon drains but are far from places where greenhouses gases are concentrated, especially CO2. A Spanish research...
New form of carbon observed
Aug 17, 2012 (SPX)
A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Lin Wang has observed a new form of very hard carbon clusters, which are unusual in their mix of crystalline and disorder...
Graphene's behavior depends on where it sits
Aug 15, 2012 (SPX)
When you look at a gift-wrapped present, the basic properties of the wrapping paper - say, its colors and texture - are not generally changed by the nature of t...
Earth absorbing more carbon, even as CO2 emissions rise
Aug 07, 2012 (SPX)
Despite sharp increases in carbon dioxide emissions by humans in recent decades that are warming the planet, Earth's vegetation and oceans continue to soak up a...
Carbon Eaters on the Black Sea
Aug 07, 2012 (SPX)
This brilliant cyan pattern scattered across the surface of the Black Sea is a bloom of microscopic phytoplankton. The multitude of single-celled algae in this ...
Earth's oceans and ecosystems still absorbing about half the greenhouse gases emitted by people
Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)
Earth's oceans, forests and other ecosystems continue to soak up about half the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by human activities, even as those em...
X-rays pave way for low cost, large scale carbon capture
Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)
Diamond Light Source is being used to improve low cost methods for carbon capture. Scientists from the University of Leeds are using the UK's national synchrotr...
China Olympics Traffic Measures Cut Carbon Emissions
Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)
A new NASA-funded study of the impacts of China's traffic restrictions for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing shows how widespread changes in transportation pa...
Scientists find CO2-sucking funnels in Southern Ocean
Jul 29, 2012 (AFP)
Scientists said Sunday they had unraveled the mechanism by which Earth-warming carbon is sucked deep into the Southern Ocean to be safely locked away -- a proce...
EU moves to prop up carbon allowances
Jul 27, 2012 (UPI)
The European Commission moved this week to prop up the ailing price of carbon emissions allowances by cutting the amount of allowances due to be auctioned. EU C...
Pulling CO2 from air vital
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
Emerging techniques to pull carbon dioxide from the air and store it away to stabilize the climate may become increasingly important as the planet tips into a s...
Brussels bids to rescue carbon-trading scheme
Jul 25, 2012 (AFP)
The European Commission moved to fix the EU's sickly Emissions Trading Scheme on Wednesday, a centre-piece of EU climate policy now in trouble, as certificates ...
Economic feasibility for capturing CO2 directly from the air
Jul 25, 2012 (SPX)
With a series of papers published in chemistry and chemical engineering journals, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have advanced the case fo...
Global CO2 emissions continue to increase
Jul 25, 2012 (SPX)
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) - the main cause of global warming - increased by 3% last year, reaching an all-time high of 34 billion tonnes in 2011....
China produces as much CO2 per person as Europe: report
Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)
China's carbon dioxide (CO2) levels soared in 2011, putting its per capita emissions on a par for the first time with those of Europe, while global levels of th...
Climate: 'Ocean fertilisation' experiment stores CO2
Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)
German researchers on Wednesday said they had evidence that sowing the ocean with iron particles sucks up and stores carbon dioxide (CO2), preventing the gas fr...
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