A fresh look into grasslands as carbon sink
Grasslands have the capability to store carbon, functioning as an important tool in a battle against climate change. While scientific ...
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Researchers fabricate cobalt copper catalysts for methane on metal-organic framework Contributes to goal of methane production from carbon dioxide emissions
The world is highly dependent on fossil fuels to power its industry and transportation. These fossil fuels lead to excessive ...
Carbon storage in harvested wood products
Wood is infinitely useful. Critically important for our changing climate, trees store carbon. When trees are harvested for wood products ...
Nature reserves may sequester significantly more carbon than high-input agricultural lands, according to comparison of Ohio sites
Nature reserves may sequester significantly more carbon than high-input agricultural lands, according to comparison of Ohio sites Credit: Rafiq Islam, ...
Poor must not shoulder responsibility for reducing healthcare carbon emissions
The pursuit of net zero healthcare risks targeting the poor and exacerbating existing unfair heath inequalities unless careful consideration is ...
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology scientists improve the power output of triboelectric nanogenerators with carbon particles
Most of us have felt the shock from static electricity by touching a metallic object after putting on a sweater ...
Carbon emissions and grocery shopping: EVs and home delivery better, ‘trip chaining’ and robots best
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way grocery stores do business, with online sales rising more than 50% from 2019 to ...
Support for carbon capture and sequestration is key to a greener, more reliable grid
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in West Virginia v. EPA limited the agency’s ability to impose national regulations on carbon dioxide ...
A simple, cheap material for carbon capture, perhaps from tailpipes
Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine — the main component of Formica — chemists have created a cheap, easy and ...
Buying a net-zero carbon home
The concrete industry is just one of many looking at new manufacturing methods to reduce its carbon footprint. These efforts ...
Carbon removal using ‘blue carbon’ habitats “uncertain and unreliable”
Restoring coastal vegetation – so called ‘blue carbon’ habitats – may not be the nature-based climate solution it is claimed ...
Designing roots to reach new depths could help carbon storage in soil
Scientists have discovered how to potentially design root systems to grow deeper by altering their angle growth to be steeper ...
Straightening out kinky roots captures carbon and avoids drought stress
Researchers have discovered a new gene in barley and wheat that controls the angle of root growth in soil, opening ...
Research on bacteria: Electron highway for hydrogen and carbon dioxide storage discovered
FRANKFURT/MARBURG/BASEL. In 2013, a team of microbiologists led by Professor Volker Müller from Goethe University Frankfurt discovered an unusual enzyme ...
Could modified train cars capture carbon from the air? This team has a plan to make it happen
Direct air capture technology removes carbon dioxide from the air and compresses it for sequestration or utilization and promises to ...
Rewriting the history of K-carbon fiber manufacturing with carbon nanotubes
A space elevator, a technology connecting the Earth’s surface to a space station, would allow for the cost-efficient transport of ...
Carbon captured and stored since 1996 is significant but overestimated by up to 30 per cent
This is according to a new report from Imperial College London published today in Environmental Science & Technology Letters. The ...
A new look at disordered carbon
When carbon atoms stack into a perfectly repeating three-dimensional crystal, they can form precious diamonds. Arranged another way, in repetitive ...
Two-dimensional ionic liquids to effectively capture carbon dioxide
In the context of global concern about climate change and greenhouse gas control, a new technology for CO2 capture, utilization, ...
Plankton will store more carbon as Earth’s climate warms – but storage beyond the end of the century is uncertain
The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers at the University of ...
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Reinvigorating ‘lost cause’ exhausted T cells could improve cancer immunotherapy
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A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment
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Researchers fabricate cobalt copper catalysts for methane on metal-organic framework Contributes to goal of methane production from carbon dioxide emissions
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New insights on how some individuals with obesity can lose weight – and keep it off
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Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to their rocky cores
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The North American Menopause Society releases its 2022 Hormone Therapy Position Statement