From pollution to solution
A low cost catalysts transform carbon dioxide gas into valuable building blocks for organic synthesis
Chemists are helping to reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which...
Brazil Outpaces All Other Countries in Reducing Global Warming Emissions
Brazil announced yesterday that it reduced tropical rainforest destruction to another record low level. The country’s National Institute for Space Research found that the...
“Dry Water” Could Help Fight Global Warming
An unusual substance, which resembles powdered sugar, known as "dry water," could provide a new way to absorb and store carbon dioxide as the...
Climate Change – Sequestration and Releasing Carbon Dioxide from the Ocean
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, report new information on the mechanism of carbon flow from the Earth's oceans at the end of...
Toyota City Low-Carbon Verification Project Begins
Toyota City , Japan, August, 2010—Toyota City and 19 private-sector enterprises (listed below) established the Toyota City Low-Carbon Society Verification Promotion Council (Chairman:...
Carbon sequestration: Boon or burden
The idea to sequester carbon is gaining support as a way to avoid global warming. For example, the European Union plans to invest billions...
Climate change scientists turn up the heat in Alaska
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are planning a large-scale, long-term ecosystem experiment to test the effects of global warming...
Americans Still Believe in Global Warming
According to a new survey by researchers at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, three out of four Americans believe that...