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Researchers Seek Biological Solution to Trap or Recycle Carbon Dioxide

Researchers have found that E. coli bacteria could possess the key to an efficient technique of trapping and storing or recycling carbon dioxide (CO2).

9 Jan 2018

New Study Reveals Higher Environmental Impact from Cookstove Emissions

Cookstoves are a main part of numerous homes across Asia: families frequently use readily available and inexpensive biofuels — such as dung or crop chaff— to cook the food needed to live.

3 Jan 2018

Dramatic Decline in Organic Aerosol Across the U.S. May Account for Saving More Lives

Research shows the Clean Air Act was likely responsible for a dramatic decline in atmospheric organic aerosol.

26 Dec 2017

Study Reveals Unforeseen Side Effect to Cleaning Up Pollution over Urban Areas

According to a new research from Caltech, an imbalance between the trends in two common air pollutants is unpredictably activating the formation of a class of airborne organic compounds not typically found in the atmosphere over urban areas of North America.

19 Dec 2017

New Method May Help U.S. Coal Plants Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Carbon capture could help the country’s coal plants minimize greenhouse gas emissions, however economic challenges are part of the reason the technology is not extensively used at present. That could transform if power plants could convert captured carbon into a usable product.

18 Dec 2017

New Catalyst Could Help Reduce Pollutants in Exhaust from Advanced Engines

With cars becoming more fuel efficient, a smaller amount of heat is wasted in the exhaust, which makes it tougher to clean up the pollutants being discharged.

15 Dec 2017

Sea Water and Scrap Metal Combined to Help Lower Global Warming

Researchers at the University of York have used sea water taken from Whitby in North Yorkshire, and scrap metal to create a technology that could help capture over 850 million tons of undesirable carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.

14 Dec 2017

Researchers Solve Ocean Methane Puzzle

Agricultural and industrial activities generate large quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas that adds to global warming. A number of bacteria also create methane as a byproduct of their metabolism. Some of this naturally emitted methane originates from the ocean, an occurrence that has long mystified scientists as there are no known methane-producing organisms existing near the ocean’s surface.

8 Dec 2017

Study Shows Diesel Vehicles in Oil Sands Production Contribute to Regional Pollution

A potentially toxic compound called isocyanic acid is emitted by cigarette smoke, wildfires and vehicles. Several health conditions such as cataracts and heart disease have been linked to the substance.

7 Dec 2017

Research Provides Fuller Picture of Large Methane Emissions from Amazon Floodplain Trees

New research solves mystery of missing methane source in the Amazon Rainforest. Environmental scientists from The Open University (OU) have discovered that trees growing in the Amazon floodplains surrounding the Amazon River emit as much methane (CH4) into the atmosphere as all of the world’s oceans.

6 Dec 2017