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Old Trees Absorb More Carbon Than Their Young Neighbors, Study Says

Mila Luleva — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:58:06 +0000

A team of scientists from the University of Melbourne established that the older the tree gets, the more carbon it absorbs. The findings published in the latest issue of Nature reveal that as the years pass, an individual tree can play much more important role in the carbon cycle. With this study, the scientists were […]

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Planting Jatropha Trees in The Desert, Quick Fix For Storing Carbon Emissions

Mila Luleva — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:10:14 +0000

Is there a ”quick fix’ for increasing carbon emissions? Apparently yes, according to German scientists. Their research published in the latest issue of the journal Earth System Dynamics suggests that a short term solution to climate change is to plant Jatropha curcas trees in the desert. Prof. Klaus Becker and his team from University of […]

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USGS Estimates the Country’s Carbon Capture And Storage Potential

Mila Luleva — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:38:29 +0000

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) released a report, indicating that onshore carbon storage resources across the country are sufficient to trap 500 times the country’s total carbon emissions reported in 2011. This is the first ever carbon sequestration assessment conducted in the country. Due to the fact that storing carbon dioxide underground is strictly […]

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Cheap Carbon Capture and Storage Tech Needed to Effectively Fight Climate Change

Mila Luleva — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:14:16 +0000

According to the new U.S. secretary of energy, Ernest Moniz, the key to fighting against climate change is to develop cheap and effective techniques for carbon capturing and storage. Despite the economic crisis and budget cuts, many companies and research institute have already acknowledged the importance of carbon capturing in the battle against global warming […]

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North Sea Carbon Storage Could Help Climate Change

Mila Luleva — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:46:58 +0000

An official report released on Friday indicated the great potential of the Norwegian Sea to store up to 100 times the country’s annual emissions of greenhouse gases. Locations such as Sleipner field in the North Sea would have the largest benefit, considering the high quantities of natural gas found there. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) […]

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Underground Carbon Storage Could Cause Earthquakes, Scientists Warn

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:08:57 +0000

A part of the scientific community involved in plans for recovering the state of the climate change we’re transitioning has been relying for a while on large scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) as the most viable way to offset carbon emissions by burying carbon underground, in saline aquifers. Two Stanford researchers, Mark Zoback and […]

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Forests Do Better Job When Uncut Than Burned as Biofuels, Researchers Say

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:23:51 +0000

They say forests are Earth’s lungs – ok, but they’re after all biomass, and we could cut them for a profit and still stay clean, because this practice should be carbon neutral… not. At least that’s what common sense and two U.S. universities (Duke and Oregon State) are telling me. Because wood stores only about […]

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Coastal Seagrasses Store Two Times More Carbon Than Forests

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:10:54 +0000

Although they’re easily ignored, seagrasses have been found to be one of the greatest carbon sinks on the planet. The study, published in Nature Geosciences, reveals that they can store up to 83,000 metric tons of carbon per square kilometer. For a change, the average forest can only store 30,000 tons of carbon per square […]

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