All carbon dioxide articles – Page 5
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Research
Renewables a better bet to cut carbon emissions than carbon capture and storage
Slow uptake and higher energy pay-off make CCS less effective route to reducing emissions
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Feature
The end of phlogiston and the discovery of oxygen
Pure air, dephlogisticated air or a new element? Josephy Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier get to grips with new gases in this month’s comic
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News
EU creates €10 billion fund for climate friendly technology
Investment programme aims to boost low-carbon technologies in Europe
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Research
Carbon-fixing enzyme 10 times more abundant than previously thought
Calculations conclude there are 0.7 billion tonnes of rubisco in the world, an order or magnitude more than past estimates
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Research
Taking the pressure off catalytic carbon dioxide conversion
Chemists obtain formate from carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure without using hydrogen gas
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News
Biomass carbon capture pilot points to a new sector whose time has come
Drax project is first of a raft of schemes poised to come online in the UK
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Opinion
Thinking differently about waste
Plastic and carbon emissions are valuable resources we can’t afford to discard
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News
EU sets target for its economy to be climate neutral by 2050
European commission looking to new technologies and policy changes to make the EU the first major economy to be net zero emissions
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Carbon dioxide screwing mechanism in porous crystal unravelled
Solid-state NMR used to probe dynamics of selective gas uptake
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News
Negative emissions technology needed to remove CO2 and head off climate change
Technologies that pull carbon dioxide from the air and sequester it are economically viable and part of package of measures to mitigate climate change, US National Academies says
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News
Explainer: the carbon dioxide crisis
Low stocks of carbon dioxide are causing problems for the food industry. So what’s really going on?
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News
New chemistry enables UK negative carbon dioxide emissions pilot
Carbon capture is back at Drax, thanks to more energy efficient absorption technology
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Research
Iron-rich rock helps oceans sink atmospheric carbon
Pouring powdered peridotites into the sea could be another way to combat climate change
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Research
Coordination trick reinvents cobalt and nickel as carbon reduction catalysts
When it comes to reducing carbon dioxide, being well coordinated is a disadvantage
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Research
Hydrogen bonds keep soda fizzy for longest
Alcohol, sugar and salts disrupt hydrogen network, changing how quickly carbon dioxide escapes from different drinks
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Research
Molten metal enables climate-friendly hydrogen production
Discovery from academics collaborating with Shell could enable a sustainable energy future, with a reduced global warming threat
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Feature
CO2 recycling – an uphill struggle
James Mitchell Crow explains how chemists are turning a problematic greenhouse gas into commercially useful molecules, at industrial scale
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Opinion
Should individual companies be blamed for climate change?
Argument ignores consumers’ responsibility driven by our energy demands
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Research
‘Cyborg’ bacteria beat plants at their own game
Microbes harvest sunlight by coating themselves in cadmium sulfide nanoparticles