Posts Tagged ‘carbon emissions’
This Machine Just Started Sucking CO2 Out Of The Air To Save Us From Climate Change
By Adele Peters | Fast Company Sitting on top of a waste incineration facility near Zurich, a new carbon capture plant is now sucking CO2 out of the air to sell to its first customer. The plant, which opened on May 31, is the first commercial enterprise of its kind. By midcentury, the startup behind it–Climeworks–believes…
Read MoreThey may save us yet: Scientists found a way to turn our carbon emissions into rock
By Chris Mooney | The Washington Post Earlier this year, a project in Iceland reported an apparent breakthrough in the safe underground storage of the principal greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide — an option likely to be necessary if we’re to solve our global warming problem. The Carbfix project, run by a leading Icelandic producer of geothermal power, Reykjavik Energy,…
Read MoreGlobal ‘greening’ has slowed rise of CO2 in the atmosphere, study finds
By Damian Carrington | The Guardian A global “greening” of the planet has significantly slowed the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since the start of the century, according to new research. More plants have been growing due to higher CO2 levels in the air and warming temperatures that cut the CO2 emitted by plants…
Read MoreSea Ice Shrinks in Step with Carbon Emissions
By Warren Cornwall | Science Magazine The jet fuel you burned on that flight from New York City to London? Say goodbye to 1 square meter of Arctic sea ice. Since at least 1960s, the shrinkage of the ice cap over the Arctic Ocean has advanced in lockstep with the amount of greenhouse gases humans have…
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