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- Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocks University of California – Berkeley If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to manufacture on-planet a...
- Canadas first net-zero carbon, mass-timber college building to rise in Toronto Wed, 4 Mar 20, 2:30amThe Centennial College in Toronto will soon make history with the addition of Canada’s first net-zero carbon, mass timber college building. Designed in collaboration with construction services company EllisDon as well as...
- Sugar ants’ preference for pee may reduce greenhouse gas emissions Fri, 7 Feb 20, 5:00pmNews Release 6-Feb-2020 University of South Australia Sugar ants mining urine in sand on Kangaroo Island Credit UniSA / Sophie Petit An unlikely penchant for pee is putting a common sugar ant on the map, as new research from...
- Nature Has Been Removing Excess CO2 4X Faster than IPCC Models Thu, 6 Feb 20, 5:00amReposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog February 5th, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Note: What I present below is scarcely believable to me. I have looked for an error in my analysis, but cannot find one. Nevertheless, extraordinary...
- Fungal decisions can affect climate Fri, 31 Jan 20, 9:00pmAmerican Society of Agronomy Fungi play an important role in the ecosystem by decomposing plant and animal debris into nutrients and simpler compounds...
- Negative CO2 Emissions Fri, 24 Jan 20, 9:00pmby Kevin Kilty An article in the January 2020 Issue of Physics Today (1) presents an interesting and very readable overview of methods to capture and store away CO2 emissions...
- Carbon Sequestration Sat, 11 Jan 20, 5:00pmGuest post by Rud Istvan, As most WUWT readers know, the issue of carbon sequestration is an important but largely IPCC undiscussed ‘anthropogenic global warming’ question...
- E. coli bacteria engineered to eat carbon dioxide Sat, 30 Nov 19, 9:00pmWhat could go wrong? ~cr From Nature Feat could turn bacteria into biological factories for energy and even food. The bacterium Escherichia coli has been engineered to grow by consuming carbon dioxide.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL...
- Department of Energy Announces $43 Million to Develop Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Sat, 30 Nov 19, 1:00amFrom Energy.gov November 14, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $43 million in funding to develop carbon capture and...
- 2017 NOAA Study Recommended Fewer Controlled Burns, Because Climate Change Mon, 11 Nov 19, 5:00pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall According to the study authors, frequent controlled burns reduce the ability of some forests to sequester CO2. More frequent fires reduce soil carbon and fertility, slowing the regrowth of plantsLong-term...
- Plants and fungi together could slow climate change Sun, 10 Nov 19, 9:00pmInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis A new global assessment shows that human impacts have greatly reduced plant-fungus symbioses, which play a key role in sequestering carbon in soils...
- MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air Sun, 27 Oct 19, 4:00pmThe process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions to open air Massachusetts Institute of Technology A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool...
- Stanford study casts doubt on carbon capture Sun, 27 Oct 19, 12:00pmStanford University One proposed method for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere – and reducing the risk of climate change – is to capture carbon from the air or prevent it from getting there...
- Clay minerals call the shots with carbon Tue, 22 Oct 19, 8:00pmRivers discharge a constant supply of sediment into the world’s oceans. This sediment is largely composed of various clay minerals – the products of rock weathering – and organic compounds of plant origin...
- Claim: Mixing AI with Green Slime will Fix Climate Change Thu, 3 Oct 19, 7:00amGuest essay by Eric Worrall The AI community are having another shot at getting their hands on a share of the climate emergency budget. Algae might be a secret weapon to combatting climate changeBy Ben Lamm October 1,...