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A state regulatory panel agreed Tuesday to develop rules for North Carolina to meet proposed overall reductions of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, and to join a multi-state effort to accomplish it. Read the full story from the Associated Press. Read more → Climate change State government MORE
Strengthen markets, measures and definitions for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fight climate change. Read more → Carbon capture Corporate sustainabilityRead the full story in Nature. MORE
Huge blazes from the north-east of Russia to North America have made global carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires this year the highest in nearly two decades of modern satellite records MORE
Carbon dioxide and warmer soils could be supercharging everyone’s least favorite plant. Read the full story at Grist. Read more → Climate change MORE
Read the full story in the New York Times. A new study analyzing hundreds of aerial readings of emissions above the forest canopy found that forest regions in the southeast were most affected. Read more → Climate change Natural resources Publications MORE
Researchers want to combat climate change by chemically converting carbon dioxide into rock on a grand scale. Read more → Carbon capture Carbon utilizationRead the full story at Hakai Magazine. MORE
At a time where scientists are trying to figure out how to suck the excess carbon out of our atmosphere, Mother Nature has known how to do it for millions of years. Trees are very efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide. MORE
The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. The first paper in the series discussed ocean alkalinity enhancement for carbon dioxide removal. MORE
million in an attempt to clean up steel production, which globally accounts for three gigatons of carbon-dioxide emissions per year, or 10% of the worldwide total. Read the full story at Daily Camera. A Boulder startup has raised $28.25 Read more → Energy Finance Metals Start-ups MORE
Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is one of several proposed techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the oceans. OAE seeks to counteract ocean acidification, while also increasing carbon storage in the oceans. By Romany M. MORE
The PaktoEarth RAWS-Tech additive decomposes to water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and less than 1% biomass. Read the full story at Plastics Today. MORE
To increase the amount of carbon dioxide that trees can remove from the atmosphere, a tree-planting scheme is testing whether the addition of soil microbes from established forests can improve growth MORE
Research shows Kernza improves water quality by reducing fertilizer pollution of water, and it can efficiently store carbon in the soil, helping reduce carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Read the full story from MPR. The largest crop yet of Kernza was recently harvested. Read more → Agriculture MORE
Scientists silenced CO2-sensing genes to determine how the destructive pests find their food. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Advances Biology Animals MORE
Carbon dioxide emissions in Los Angeles and the Washington DC/Baltimore regions fell roughly 33 percent in April of 2020 compared with previous years, as roads emptied and economic activity slowed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. Read the full story from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). MORE
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About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash MORE
Replenishing depleted soil with carbon dioxide from the air can combat climate change, if science, policy, and markets align. Read the full story in Chemical & Engineering News. Read more → Agriculture Climate change MORE
By Jennifer Matthews, Penn State News A new, environmentally friendly, single-step process has been developed to convert carbon dioxide into higher hydrocarbons using plasma, according to scientists and engineers. We need to do something to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. MORE
Our Earth is heating up because of all the carbon dioxide in the air. … Read more → Carbon capture Carbon utilization Green buildingRead the full story at Fast Company. But even if we can suck that much CO2 out of the atmosphere, there’s still a problem: What do we do with all of it once it’s recaptured? The short answer is, put it into products.… MORE
Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, where roughly half was stored in the biomass. MORE
To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. This necessarily raises the question: what should be done with all of the carbon dioxide? By Romany M. MORE
Four of the five largest industrial agricultural facilities that have released the most carbon emissions in the past decade belong to Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest food processing and commodity trading companies. Read the full story at the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. MORE
Carbon dioxide emissions must fall by the equivalent of a global lockdown roughly every two years for the next decade for the world to keep within safe limits of global heating, research has shown. MORE
Hydrofluorocarbons, also known as HFCs, can have up to 14,800 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide. Read the full story at The Hill. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday is finalizing a rule aimed at significantly cutting the use of a type of greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons that are used in refrigeration. The new EPA… Read more → Food and beverage manufacturing Laboratories Regulation MORE
Noya plans to use existing towers to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Read more → Carbon captureRead the full story at Who What Why. There are about two million cooling towers across the US. MORE
Eunice Foote discovered that carbon dioxide absorbs heat and theorized that if the Earth’s air filled with more CO2, the planet’s temperature would rise. Read the full story at Fast Company. Read more → Climate change History Women in science MORE
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are projected to increase by 1.5 billion tons this year , the second-largest increase in history, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. Read more on E360 MORE
from the Department of Energy (DOE) for a project leveraging technology that uses carbon dioxide (CO2)-rich gas, such as from corn grain ethanol refining, to make chemicals and fuels. A major benefit is that the CO2 is captured before… Read more → Carbon utilization Circular economyRead the full story at Waste360. Climate technology developer and commercializer LanzaTech has been awarded $4.1M MORE
South Dakota Mines researchers study microbial acceleration of carbon mineralization with extremophiles found at SURF. Read more → Carbon captureRead the full story from the Stanford Underground Research Facility. MORE
Inside that reactor, captured carbon dioxide is being transformed into synthetic jet fuel. Read more → Aerospace industry Carbon capture Carbon utilizationRead the full story at Fast Company. In a field in the desert next to a freeway in Tucson, Arizona, the sun beams down on a large mirror in a research park, powering a small reactor nearby. MORE
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By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs are releasing around 4.9 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually across the globe, the equivalent of 1.1 Read the full story from the University of Queensland. million cars, according to new research. Read more → Climate change Invasive species Publications MORE
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. But measuring the carbon… Read more → Agriculture Climate migrationRead the full post at State of the Planet. MORE
The International Energy Agency said in a report Tuesday that even as carbon dioxide emissions are set to hit a record high in 2023, international governments are set to only put 2 percent of their COVID-19 recovery spending toward renewable energy. Read the full story at The Hill. MORE
Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $45 million in funding for 12 projects to advance point-source carbon capture and storage technologies that can capture at least 95% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from natural gas power and industrial facilities that produce commodities like cement and steel. These research and development, front-end engineering… Read more → Carbon capture Funding Prairie Research InstituteThe U.S. MORE
That’s why it’s invigorating to see a solution such as Remora, which reduces emissions from long-haul trucking by sucking up carbon dioxide directly from… Read more → Auto industry Carbon capture TransportationRead the full story from GreenBiz. Climate tech solutions can sometimes seem vexingly distant on the horizon, but as climate impacts bear down hard, the urgency of the problem is palpable. MORE
Fifteen years ago, the idea of sucking carbon dioxide out of the air and storing it underground was an anathema to many in the climate movement, an excuse to avoid the hard work of cutting fossil fuel use. Read more → Carbon captureRead the full story at GreenBiz. Now, it’s an imperative. MORE
Photoferrotrophs have been around for billions of years on Earth, and new research suggests that they have played an outsize roll in the natural capture of carbon dioxide. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. MORE
Little attention tends to go toward electrifying cargo and tanker ships, which account for about 3% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Northwestern University researchers developed a patent-pending onboard carbon capture technology they say works for long-range vehicles like tanker… Read more → Carbon capture Publications TransportationRead the full story at Centered. MORE
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from the Department of Energy (DOE) for a project leveraging technology that uses carbon dioxide (CO2)-rich gas, such as from corn grain ethanol refining, to make chemicals and fuels. A major benefit is that the CO2 is captured before… Read more → Carbon utilization Circular economyRead the full story at Waste360. Climate technology developer and commercializer LanzaTech has been awarded $4.1M
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Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, where roughly half was stored in the biomass.
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Scientists silenced CO2-sensing genes to determine how the destructive pests find their food. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Advances Biology Animals
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JUNE 18, 2021
Carbon dioxide emissions in Los Angeles and the Washington DC/Baltimore regions fell roughly 33 percent in April of 2020 compared with previous years, as roads emptied and economic activity slowed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. Read the full story from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. The first paper in the series discussed ocean alkalinity enhancement for carbon dioxide removal.
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South Dakota Mines researchers study microbial acceleration of carbon mineralization with extremophiles found at SURF. Read more → Carbon captureRead the full story from the Stanford Underground Research Facility.
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Read the full story in the New York Times. A new study analyzing hundreds of aerial readings of emissions above the forest canopy found that forest regions in the southeast were most affected. Read more → Climate change Natural resources Publications
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Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is one of several proposed techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in the oceans. OAE seeks to counteract ocean acidification, while also increasing carbon storage in the oceans. By Romany M.
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JUNE 29, 2021
Four of the five largest industrial agricultural facilities that have released the most carbon emissions in the past decade belong to Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest food processing and commodity trading companies. Read the full story at the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.
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By Jennifer Matthews, Penn State News A new, environmentally friendly, single-step process has been developed to convert carbon dioxide into higher hydrocarbons using plasma, according to scientists and engineers. We need to do something to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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Researchers are proposing an alternative strategy for controlling the global carbon-climate system. Climate Change Daily News Magazine carbon dioxide carbon emissions climate change closed loop CO2 environment news successful GREEN sustainability
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Carbon dioxide and warmer soils could be supercharging everyone’s least favorite plant. Read the full story at Grist. Read more → Climate change
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Strengthen markets, measures and definitions for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fight climate change. Read more → Carbon capture Corporate sustainabilityRead the full story in Nature.
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Noya plans to use existing towers to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Read more → Carbon captureRead the full story at Who What Why. There are about two million cooling towers across the US.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Photoferrotrophs have been around for billions of years on Earth, and new research suggests that they have played an outsize roll in the natural capture of carbon dioxide. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
About 80 per cent of the carbon dioxide released by Australia’s huge wildfires of 2019-2020 was captured by ocean algal blooms that grew due to the iron-rich ash
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AUGUST 20, 2021
Huge blazes from the north-east of Russia to North America have made global carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires this year the highest in nearly two decades of modern satellite records
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OCTOBER 19, 2021
Inside that reactor, captured carbon dioxide is being transformed into synthetic jet fuel. Read more → Aerospace industry Carbon capture Carbon utilizationRead the full story at Fast Company. In a field in the desert next to a freeway in Tucson, Arizona, the sun beams down on a large mirror in a research park, powering a small reactor nearby.
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At a time where scientists are trying to figure out how to suck the excess carbon out of our atmosphere, Mother Nature has known how to do it for millions of years. Trees are very efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide.
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Researchers want to combat climate change by chemically converting carbon dioxide into rock on a grand scale. Read more → Carbon capture Carbon utilizationRead the full story at Hakai Magazine.
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Replenishing depleted soil with carbon dioxide from the air can combat climate change, if science, policy, and markets align. Read the full story in Chemical & Engineering News. Read more → Agriculture Climate change
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Carbon dioxide emissions must fall by the equivalent of a global lockdown roughly every two years for the next decade for the world to keep within safe limits of global heating, research has shown.
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Research shows Kernza improves water quality by reducing fertilizer pollution of water, and it can efficiently store carbon in the soil, helping reduce carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Read the full story from MPR. The largest crop yet of Kernza was recently harvested. Read more → Agriculture
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MAY 26, 2021
To increase the amount of carbon dioxide that trees can remove from the atmosphere, a tree-planting scheme is testing whether the addition of soil microbes from established forests can improve growth
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OCTOBER 20, 2021
Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $45 million in funding for 12 projects to advance point-source carbon capture and storage technologies that can capture at least 95% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from natural gas power and industrial facilities that produce commodities like cement and steel. These research and development, front-end engineering… Read more → Carbon capture Funding Prairie Research InstituteThe U.S.
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Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are projected to increase by 1.5 billion tons this year , the second-largest increase in history, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. Read more on E360
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To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. This necessarily raises the question: what should be done with all of the carbon dioxide? By Romany M.
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AUGUST 26, 2021
Fifteen years ago, the idea of sucking carbon dioxide out of the air and storing it underground was an anathema to many in the climate movement, an excuse to avoid the hard work of cutting fossil fuel use. Read more → Carbon captureRead the full story at GreenBiz. Now, it’s an imperative.
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AUGUST 24, 2021
The PaktoEarth RAWS-Tech additive decomposes to water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and less than 1% biomass. Read the full story at Plastics Today.
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AUGUST 10, 2021
Eunice Foote discovered that carbon dioxide absorbs heat and theorized that if the Earth’s air filled with more CO2, the planet’s temperature would rise. Read the full story at Fast Company. Read more → Climate change History Women in science
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AUGUST 6, 2021
By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs are releasing around 4.9 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually across the globe, the equivalent of 1.1 Read the full story from the University of Queensland. million cars, according to new research. Read more → Climate change Invasive species Publications
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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. But measuring the carbon… Read more → Agriculture Climate migrationRead the full post at State of the Planet.
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JULY 20, 2021
The International Energy Agency said in a report Tuesday that even as carbon dioxide emissions are set to hit a record high in 2023, international governments are set to only put 2 percent of their COVID-19 recovery spending toward renewable energy. Read the full story at The Hill.
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JULY 14, 2021
A state regulatory panel agreed Tuesday to develop rules for North Carolina to meet proposed overall reductions of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, and to join a multi-state effort to accomplish it. Read the full story from the Associated Press. Read more → Climate change State government
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million in an attempt to clean up steel production, which globally accounts for three gigatons of carbon-dioxide emissions per year, or 10% of the worldwide total. Read the full story at Daily Camera. A Boulder startup has raised $28.25 Read more → Energy Finance Metals Start-ups
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Hydrofluorocarbons, also known as HFCs, can have up to 14,800 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide. Read the full story at The Hill. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday is finalizing a rule aimed at significantly cutting the use of a type of greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons that are used in refrigeration. The new EPA… Read more → Food and beverage manufacturing Laboratories Regulation
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Little attention tends to go toward electrifying cargo and tanker ships, which account for about 3% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Northwestern University researchers developed a patent-pending onboard carbon capture technology they say works for long-range vehicles like tanker… Read more → Carbon capture Publications TransportationRead the full story at Centered.
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That’s why it’s invigorating to see a solution such as Remora, which reduces emissions from long-haul trucking by sucking up carbon dioxide directly from… Read more → Auto industry Carbon capture TransportationRead the full story from GreenBiz. Climate tech solutions can sometimes seem vexingly distant on the horizon, but as climate impacts bear down hard, the urgency of the problem is palpable.
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Our Earth is heating up because of all the carbon dioxide in the air. … Read more → Carbon capture Carbon utilization Green buildingRead the full story at Fast Company. But even if we can suck that much CO2 out of the atmosphere, there’s still a problem: What do we do with all of it once it’s recaptured? The short answer is, put it into products.…
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