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'The Great Dying' mass extinction was a warning from the trees, study says
As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...
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Scientists discover breakthrough method to convert harmful substance into valuable construction material: 'This is an underexplored opportunity'
Researchers developed a revolutionary new method of carbon capture, which can be used to make upcycled cement.
Warming depletes Arctic soil's nitrogen stores, irreversibly increasing CO₂ emissions
A study led by the UAB and the CREAF shows that the loss of nitrogen from Arctic soil not only deprives plants of a vital ...
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Deep Root Respiration Helps Break Down Rocks
The carbon dioxide that results from respiration in and around deep roots is an essential component in the chemical ...
Muscles, Microbes, And Microgravity: India's First Biology Experiments In Space
India has taken its first bold steps into space biology with a series of pioneering experiments aboard the International ...
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First Signal of Climate Change Became Detectable 130 Years Ago
If scientists of the 19th century could have used modern tools to study the atmosphere, they might have noticed the early ...
Carbon Capture Reimagined: New Material Removes CO₂ From Air Like a Tree
Scientists are designing a new living material that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air. It uses photosynthetic ...
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How carbon capture works and the debate about whether it’s a future climate solution
Power plants and industrial facilities that emit carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global warming, are hopeful that ...
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Shipboard system that uses limestone and seawater could cut CO₂ emissions by half
Scientists at USC and Caltech, in collaboration with startup company Calcarea, have developed a promising shipboard system ...
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Amanchukwu Lab: Creating better energy storage systems
Step inside the laboratory as Chibueze Amanchukwu and his team investigate the chemistry that could lead to better batteries ...
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Photosynthetic living material uses bacteria to capture CO₂ in two different ways
Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic ...
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A more effective carbon dioxide reduction reaction
Bubbling carbon dioxide, which is found in flue gases, through an acid solution dramatically increases the durability of membranes used in carbon dioxide reduction reactions. One particular ...