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Continental Shelves Become Important Carbon Dioxide Sinks

As carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, the global ocean takes in the excess, storing almost 30% of the CO2 emissions generated from human activities.

1 Feb 2018

MIT Panelists Weigh Advantages and Disadvantages of Carbon Pricing

Many economists across the political spectrum agree that carbon pricing could provide a cost-effective strategy to accelerate a transition to a low-carbon economy and reduce carbon emissions that play a key role in global climate change.

31 Jan 2018

U of T Researchers Develop Innovative Catalyst for Simulating Photosynthesis

Scientists from U of T Engineering have now reached close to achieving artificial photosynthesis, where similar to plants, renewable energy is used to transform carbon dioxide, or CO2, into stored chemical energy. They achieved this by developing an innovative catalyst.

21 Nov 2017

Direct Conversion of CH4 and CO2 into Liquid Fuels to Arrest Gas Flaring in Oil Wells

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have achieved a remarkable advancement in directly transforming methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemicals and liquid fuels that can assist in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and also synthesizing precious chemical feedstocks.

9 Oct 2017

Study Suggests Ancient Global Warming is Driven by Massive Carbon Emissions from Volcanoes

According to a new study, headed by the University of Southampton and involving a group of International Researchers, massive CO2 emissions from volcanoes were responsible for the extreme global warming event that occurred 56 million years ago, during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean. The study has been reported in Nature.

31 Aug 2017

Researchers Demonstrate Electrochemical Strategy for CO2 Fixation

Researchers working toward the mysterious lithium-air battery have unveiled an unexpected approach to capturing and storing carbon dioxide away from the atmosphere.

10 Aug 2017

Negative Emissions Technologies May Pass the Buck for Reducing Carbon on to Future Generations

The Paris Agreement on climate change and the carbon-reduction plans of many governments (including the UK) are unwittingly reliant on unproven technologies to suck hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.

17 Oct 2016

Aviation Industry Starts Using Biofuels to Reduce Carbon Emissions

The global aviation industry has pledged that by 2050, it will reduce its net carbon emissions to half its 2005 levels. Achieving this will require not only improved engine efficiency and aerodynamics, but also a turn to renewable jet fuel.

22 Sep 2016

Geological Formations Could Help Contain CO2 Emissions

Effectively capturing and storing carbon in underground reservoirs is one way to meet the climate change targets set by international partners and countries worldwide.

29 Jul 2016