UD researchers show Canada Basin’s diminished capacity to absorb carbon dioxide University of Delaware New research by University of Delaware doctoral student Zhangxian Ouyang and oceanographer Wei-Jun Cai, and an…
Category: Carbon sequestration
Ocean uptake of CO2 could drop as carbon emissions are cut
Shrinkage due to COVID-19 may provide case in point Earth Institute at Columbia UniversityShare Print E-Mail Volcanic eruptions and human-caused changes to the atmosphere strongly influence the rate at which the ocean…
Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores
Only highly specialized bacteria can carry out the degradation of brown algae with the help of more than hundred enzymes Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology You may like them…
Australia Enrages Activists, Embraces “Technology Neutral” Carbon Credits
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Looks like Planet of the Humans might be having an impact on policy; The Australian Government has broadened the scope of activities which can qualify…
£800k study to look at link between fire and climate change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall University of Stirling researchers have received a £800K grant to study what proportion of carbon captured by soil is from partially burned plants. NEWS RELEASE 12-MAY-2020£800k…
On Mars or Earth, biohybrid can turn carbon dioxide into new products
Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocks University of California – Berkeley If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to…
Sugar ants’ preference for pee may reduce greenhouse gas emissions
News Release 6-Feb-2020 University of South Australia Sugar ants mining urine in sand on Kangaroo Island Credit UniSA / Sophie Petit An unlikely penchant for pee is putting a common…
Nature Has Been Removing Excess CO2 4X Faster than IPCC Models
Reposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog February 5th, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Note: What I present below is scarcely believable to me. I have looked for an…
Fungal decisions can affect climate
American Society of Agronomy Fungi play an important role in the ecosystem by decomposing plant and animal debris into nutrients and simpler compounds. Credit Susan V. Fisk When we think…
Negative CO2 Emissions
by Kevin Kilty An article in the January 2020 Issue of Physics Today (1) presents an interesting and very readable overview of methods to capture and store away CO2 emissions.…
Carbon Sequestration
Guest post by Rud Istvan, As most WUWT readers know, the issue of carbon sequestration is an important but largely IPCC undiscussed ‘anthropogenic global warming’ question. I got to thinking…
E. coli bacteria engineered to eat carbon dioxide
What could go wrong? ~cr From Nature Feat could turn bacteria into biological factories for energy and even food. The bacterium Escherichia coli has been engineered to grow by consuming…
Department of Energy Announces $43 Million to Develop Carbon Capture and Storage Technology
From Energy.gov November 14, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $43 million in funding to develop carbon…
2017 NOAA Study Authors Recommended Fewer Controlled Burns, Because Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the study authors, frequent controlled burns reduce the ability of some forests to sequester CO2. More frequent fires reduce soil carbon and fertility,…
Plants and fungi together could slow climate change
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis A new global assessment shows that human impacts have greatly reduced plant-fungus symbioses, which play a key role in sequestering carbon in soils. Restoring…
MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air
The process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions to open air Massachusetts Institute of Technology A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a…
Stanford study casts doubt on carbon capture
Stanford University One proposed method for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere – and reducing the risk of climate change – is to capture carbon from the air…
Clay minerals call the shots with carbon
Rivers discharge a constant supply of sediment into the world’s oceans. This sediment is largely composed of various clay minerals – the products of rock weathering – and organic compounds…
Claim: Mixing AI with Green Slime will Fix Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The AI community are having another shot at getting their hands on a share of the climate emergency budget. Algae might be a secret weapon…
New research puts Australia at forefront of blue carbon economy
In world-first research, Edith Cowan University researchers and an international team of collaborators have accurately quantified the amount of greenhouse gasses — or ‘blue carbon’ — being absorbed and emitted…
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