New Scientist

AUGUST 18, 2021

“Negative emissions” technologies involve sucking CO? out of the atmosphere. They are essential to net-zero climate plans – but does anyone know how to make them work?

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Together, they are working to advance mitigation technologies to protect ocean wildlife. Specifically, they are developing a set of criteria to verify the effectiveness of new solutions and technologies for protecting whales. This technology is being tested by offshore wind developers along the East Coast.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 21, 2023

An innovative and sustainable chemistry developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for capturing carbon dioxide from air has been licensed to Holocene, a Knoxville-based startup focused on designing and building plants that remove carbon dioxide from atmospheric air.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Blacks are badly underrepresented in STEM fields such as atmospheric science and in environmental groups, but there are some important exceptions.(STEM STEM stands for ‘Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.’) Dr. Warren Washington is a long-time leader in atmospheric science at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

HotSpots H2O: Unusually Powerful ‘Atmospheric River’ Pummels British Columbia and Pacific Northwest – This summer’s heat wave and wildfires weakened the landscape’s ability to absorb rainfall, further contributing to the destruction. Officials Turn To Decades-Old Technology To Mitigate Water Crisis appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 3, 2023

United Airlines announced plans to invest $15 million in carbon capture technology company Svante, the carrier’s latest commitment to the new United Airlines Ventures (UAV) Sustainable Flight Fund.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbon dioxide and permanently sequester that carbon dioxide underground.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2022

by Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature can remove. There is so much CO2 in the atmosphere now that most scenarios… Read more →

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It will require us to fundamentally alter the profile of our energy use and derive growth from fuels and technologies that emit less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and to adapt to the climatic changes that our actions are too late to prevent.” “Climate change also promises to impact the global economy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

The Discovery Partners Institute studies land surface-atmosphere interactions that impact urban fluid dynamics and boundary layer flow at multiple spatial scales, from regional to local. The institute also conducts collaborative and translational research that benefits society at the intersection of science, engineering and social sciences.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Dave Luebke, technical director of the Direct Air Capture Center at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. The Center was established in 2023 to jumpstart DAC technologies and accelerate the commercialization of DAC technologies beyond the conceptual stage.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 6, 2021

Farmers have, for years, known about their theoretical ability to offset carbon emissions by managing their land in a way that captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in the soil — a set of practices sometimes referred to as regenerative agriculture. Read the full post at State of the Planet.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. That means the Solid Carbon technology could be used at sea anywhere. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. By Dr Kate Moran.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 21, 2023

Although quantum computing is still in the early development stages, researchers are already leveraging the technology to help solve big challenges like reducing carbon in the atmosphere. Read the full story at PillarQ News.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

On July 10, MethaneSAT , a subsidiary of the Environmental Defense Fund , announced it has successfully tested methane detection technology to be used to measure and track methane emissions from oil and gas operators and other sectors across North America. We have the technology and solutions to cut methane today.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Read the full story from the Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH). Harvesting atmospheric water … Continue reading Water harvesting in Death Valley: Conquering the arid wilderness Nations across the globe are employing diverse approaches in an endeavor to mitigate this issue.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 6, 2023

Read the full story from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Researchers are proposing a novel pathway through which coastal ecosystem restoration can permanently capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

Last week, MIT’s “Technology Review” reported that a small startup firm is proposing to spray reflective aerosols in the stratosphere commercially as a climate corrective. Even more seriously — and unlike removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere — SAI perturbs the climate in a different way than greenhouse gases.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 3, 2024

They absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere without using expensive technology. by James Weber, University of Reading and James A. King, University of Sheffield Tackling climate change by planting trees has an intuitive appeal. The suggestion that you can plant trees to offset your carbon emissions is widespread.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

That adds up to something in the ballpark of fifty million tons of CO2 that California kept out of the atmosphere during that decade beyond what happened in the power sector nationally. Over the course of the decade, then, about a quarter of California’s reduction was over and beyond the national trend.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 31, 2023

billion for two pioneering facilities—one in Texas, the other in Louisiana—that will remove millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually from the atmosphere using a technology known as direct air capture (DAC). Department of Energy (DOE) today announced it will spend $1.2 Part of a controversial … Continue reading U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 6, 2024

Synthetic biology and engineering company LanzaTech commercialized a technology that captures carbon from steel mills and ferro-alloy mills before it is released into the atmosphere; it is then transformed into raw materials that are used in products traditionally derived from petroleum. Read the full story at Waste360.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

But while the scoping plan talks a lot about the low carbon technologies we need, it also should be clearer about the implications for the technologies we are leaving behind, so everyone can plan for what comes next. What is a petroleum phaseout plan and why does California need one?

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Physics World

MARCH 19, 2022

That is the conclusion of astronomers who have developed a detailed 3D model of the atmosphere of WASP-121b, which is a “hot Jupiter” that is about 850 light-years from Earth. The team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology observed WASP-121b using a spectroscopic camera aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 25, 2022

has a particularly large role to play in leading global development of carbon removal approaches and technologies. Read the full story from the World Resources Institute. carbon removal?.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

link] [open access] Abstract Stringent climate change mitigation scenarios rely on large-scale drawdown of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Amongst drawdown technologies, bioenergy with carbon capture … Continue reading Leveraging the bioeconomy for carbon drawdown Green Chemistry 25(8), 2930–2957.

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New Scientist

AUGUST 18, 2021

“Negative emissions” technologies involve sucking CO? out of the atmosphere. They are essential to net-zero climate plans – but does anyone know how to make them work?

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Addressing this serious problem using existing technologies is a key part of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals – with the organization declaring that everyone should have access to five litres of safe drinking water every day. The lack of access to safely managed drinking water now affects some 2.2 billion people worldwide.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

Such events are becoming more common as Earth’s atmosphere continues to warm. Rehman urged political leaders to act on the issue, advocating for technology upgrades, ecosystem restoration in the Indus River Valley, and enforcing a 1991 accord that governs the distribution of water between Pakistan’s provinces.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 23, 2024

in fresh funding to support the commercialisation of its ocean-based carbon capture technology, which promises to boost the ocean’s capacity to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. California-based carbon removals specialist Captura has confirmed it has secured $21.5m

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Law and Environment

APRIL 11, 2022

We’re almost certainly going to have to spend money pulling carbon from the atmosphere. I’ve always been skeptical of carbon removal technologies, other than land management, but going there is probably unavoidable at this point. I think it might be better for the IPCC to stick to the science and technology of mitigation.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 23, 2024

The ability to meet EU climate goals is enhanced by investing in new technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Read the full story from Linköping University. Although it is currently unprofitable for both companies and countries to do so, there are solutions to make it financially viable.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The ‘Carbon Management Challenge’ is described by the White House as aiming “to accelerate carbon capture, removal, use, and storage technologies so as to deal with emissions that can’t otherwise be avoided.” And it is essential to counter overshoot, by actively reducing atmospheric GHG concentrations. Carbon management?

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But the latest initiative by Google will be likely to attract praise, as it will be using technology to overcome a critical problem when it comes to cutting emissions: oil and gas methane leaks. Its platform hosts climate-denying content, and the company seems unable to crack down on it.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Swiss company Climeworks has opened the world’s largest plant that will directly capture CO2 from the atmosphere. The plant has the capacity to safely remove 4,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year and store it permanently through the Carbfix natural mineralisation process.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say new technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere must be developed faster to meet goals to reduce global warming. Read the full story from Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 18, 2024

Researchers have developed a promising new solar-powered atmospheric water harvesting technology that could help provide enough drinking water for people to survive in difficult, dryland areas: They synthesized a super hygroscopic gel capable of absorbing and retaining an unparalleled amount of water.

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