Uranus and Neptune May Have Taken Different Paths to Becoming Ice Giants
Uranus and Neptune are often described as near-twins, but a new study suggests their chemistry, and possibly their…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is Spewing Gas Surprisingly Slowly, New Observations Show
Using spectral data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas, astronomers have traced gas from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS,…
US turns waste carbon into 2.5 barrels of synthetic jet fuel per day
A climate technology company has successfully produced synthetic aviation fuel from landfill-derived renewable natural gas (RNG) and captured…
Scientists turn carbon dioxide into fully recyclable high-performance plastics
Colorado State University researchers developed a catalytic route that directly combines carbon dioxide with strained bicyclic molecules to…
Google agrees biggest carbon-removal deal yet, aims to scale new model
By Simon Jessop LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Google has agreed its biggest carbon-removal deal yet, backing a…
What’s the Largest Current on Earth? It Moves More Water Than Every River Combined—Many Times Over
Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Earth’s mightiest current has no banks. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, or ACC,…
New method converts emissions to fuel feedstock without purification
An international team of researchers developed a method to convert the carbon dioxide emitted from factories into fuel feedstock without cleaning or…
India plans rules to boost car fuel economy to curb oil imports
NEW DELHI: India is proposing rules to improve fuel efficiency of passenger vehicles as it seeks to curb…
Airborne study suggests tropical forests are absorbing less air pollution than models predict
Climate models have often treated tropical forests as a major brake on carbon pollution. New findings from an…
Earth’s Plants May Have Nearly 2 Billion Years Left Before the Planet Becomes Too Hostile
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Earth’s last great survivor may not be humanity, or even animals. It may be photosynthesis…
Carbon dioxide can selectively oxidize alkenes
It’s a well-established fact that there’s a lot of carbon dioxide floating around and more being released…
Q&A: The current state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ around the world
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies will need to be deployed at rates even faster than those seen for…