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Romania to resume trading carbon emission rights
Jul 14, 2012 (AFP)
Romania has won the right to resume trading its surplus carbon emission rights, almost a year being suspended from doing so under the Kyoto Protocol, Romanian E...
Atmospheric scientists release first bottom-up estimates of China's CO2 emissions
Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)
Atmospheric scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Nanjing University have produced the first "bottom-up" estimates of ...
Cool reception for Australia's climate tax: poll
Jul 02, 2012 (AFP)
Australia's new carbon tax received a cool reception in a poll Monday, showing Prime Minister Julia Gillard's mechanism to tackle climate change is unpopular an...
Australia now has carbon tax
Jul 02, 2012 (UPI)
Australia's controversial carbon tax, aimed at cutting the country's greenhouse gas emissions, went into effect on Sunday. Under the carbon plan, businesses whi...
Australia brings in contentious carbon tax
Jul 01, 2012 (AFP)
Australia on Sunday introduced a controversial carbon tax in a bid to tackle climate change, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard hailing the move amid opposition ...
Trapping light in a carbon net
Jun 25, 2012 (SPX)
Graphene, an ordered monolayer of carbon, is the thinnest substance known, and yet has extraordinary mechanical strength. A new study shows that its two-dimensi...
Research shows the response of the carbon cycle to climate change
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
Marine and freshwater environments have the potential to release more carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere in a warmer climate than their land counterparts,...
'Carbon capture' too risky, earthquake prone: US study
Jun 18, 2012 (AFP)
A proposed method of cutting harmful carbon emissions in the atmosphere by storing them underground risks causing earthquakes and is unlikely to succeed, a US s...
Lexus won't regain US luxury crown: exec
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
Toyota's Lexus brand does not expect to win back the luxury car sales crown in the United States any time soon, the brand's top salesman said Wednesday. Lexus w...
UMD Scientists Create Faster, More Sensitive Photodetector by Tricking Graphene
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials of the University of Maryland have developed a new type of hot electron bolometer a sensitive d...
US May auto sales rise 20% on sweeter incentives
Jun 01, 2012 (AFP)
With Toyota and Honda leading the way, US car sales rose by more than 20 percent in May from a year ago, juiced up by increased incentives amid a slow US econom...
New materials could slash energy costs for CO2 capture
Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)
A detailed analysis of more than 4 million absorbent minerals has determined that new materials could help electricity producers slash as much as 30 percent of ...
Researchers find new properties of the carbon material graphene
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
Graphene has caused a lot of excitement among scientists since the extremely strong and thin carbon material was discovered in 2004. Just one atom thick, the ho...
Computer model pinpoints prime materials for efficient carbon capture
May 29, 2012 (SPX)
When power plants begin capturing their carbon emissions to reduce greenhouse gases - and to most in the electric power industry, it's a question of when, not i...
Seagrasses Can Store as Much Carbon as Forests
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
Seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and, per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world's temperate...
Professor uses diamond to produce graphene quantum dots and nano-ribbons of controlled structure
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
Kansas State University researchers have come closer to solving an old challenge of producing graphene quantum dots of controlled shape and size at large densit...
Graphite enters different states of matter in ultrafast experiment
May 22, 2012 (SPX)
For the first time, scientists have seen an X-ray-irradiated mineral go to two different states of matter in about 40 femtoseconds (a femtosecond is one quadril...
Chocolate and diamonds: Why volcanoes could be a girl's best friend
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered a previously unrecognised volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing...
Japan's Toyota to post $4.3 bn profit: report
Apr 30, 2012 (AFP)
Japanese car giant Toyota Motor will post a full-year operating profit of $4.3 billion, nearly 30 percent above forecast, when it announces its earning results ...
NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space
Feb 23, 2012 (JPL)
Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, th...
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