Award-winning chemist Zhang Wei leaves US to join China’s Great Bay University
Zhang Wei, former chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Colorado Boulder, has returned to China…
Trees May Not Slow Climate Change as Much as Scientists Thought
Ecologists and climate researchers have sometimes called it “natural geoengineering.” The idea is elegant in its simplicity: A forest…
Carbon Markets Just Had Their Most Important Moment in Years
For much of the past decade, carbon credits have suffered from a credibility problem. Critics called them greenwashing,…
Food Waste Becomes a Powerful Carbon Trap in Climate Breakthrough
Still life featuring protein beads loaded with potassium hydroxide. The porous material acts as a sponge for CO2.…
Forget Expensive Carbon Capture—Renewables Are the Cheaper Climate Fix
To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the global community must rapidly transition to renewable energy while…
Scientists Just Made Carbon Capture Much Cheaper and Easier
This image created using Gemini Pro, depicts an activated carbon fiber functionalized with amine groups (–NH2) at adjacent…
Ocean geoengineering trial finds no evidence of harm to marine life
Alkaline sodium hydroxide was dumped into the Gulf of Maine to test its effect on carbon uptake and…
How White Hydrogen and Carbon Mineralization Could Decarbonize Industry
In the remote geology of western Newfoundland, a specific formation of ancient oceanic crust is shifting from a…
New pressure method captures 99% of CO2 for just $26 per ton
A carbon-capture method inspired by the simple fizz of a soda bottle could dramatically cut the cost of…
Scientists Turned Plastic Trash Into a Material That Eats Carbon
Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases…
This Unlikely Chemical Could Be a Powerful Weapon Against Climate Change
Year after year, humans pump more carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere than nature can remove, fueling global…
We may have 10 times less carbon storage capacity than we thought
A geothermal power plant in Iceland where carbon dioxide has been injected underground for long-term storage Sigrg/CarbFix The…