Source: nationalgeographic.com Published: June 14, 2016 NOTE: This article requires a National Geographic account to view. For hundreds of years, parts of sub-Saharan Africa have suffered from poor soil. Weather, shifting populations, and slash-and-burn practices have...
Source: theguardian.com Published: June 9, 2016 Site close to the Hellisheidi geothermal powerplant, where CO2 was injected into volcanic rock. In two years it was almost completely mineralised. Photograph: Juerg Matter/Science Radical new technique promises a cheaper...
Source: collective-evolution.com Published: June 3, 2016 ByAlexa Erickson Gases that help capture heat, called “greenhouse gases,” can be emitted from natural sources, while others are anthropogenic, resulting from human activities. The latter has caused a surge in...
Source: environmentguru.com Published: November 13, 2015 Carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. The innovators at Swiss company Climeworks may have solved the problem of excess CO2 in our atmosphere. By creating a system that converts CO2 into a usable byproduct, they are...
Source: matteroftrust.org Published: May 1, 2015 Every day, plants and microorganisms use greenhouse gases to make useful materials, from carbon dioxide-capturing redwood trees and coral reefs to deep sea methane-capturing hydrothermal vent ecosystems. Inspired by...
Source: grist.com Published: January 16, 2014 Shutterstock Nathanael Johnson When UC-Berkeley ecologist Whendee Silver first heard about the idea behind the Marin Carbon Project, she was pretty skeptical. The group wanted her to study the land they were ranching to...
Source: treehugger.com Published: April 5, 2012 CleanTechnica/via Petz Scholtus petzdelux French biochemist and Shamengo pioneer Pierre Calleja has invented this impressive streetlight that is powered by algae which absorbs CO2 from the air. We have featured...
Source: independent.co.uk Published: October 19, 2012 Steve Connor @SteveAConnor Is scientific breakthrough a milestone on the road to clean energy? Tim Harrison in the only lab known to be working on the technology A small British company has produced the first...
