Browsing: CO2
Exploration at Antarctica’s Allan Hills Reveals 3 Million-Year-Old Ice Cores Credit: Austin Carter Researchers have used ancient air bubbles trapped in a 3-million-year-old ice core to…
Innovative Carbon Removal Technique Credit: Paul Nelson Applying crushed silicate rocks, like basalt, in agricultural fields could potentially eliminate up to 1.1 billion metric tons of…
Trees Floating Towards the Arctic Ocean Carl Christoph Stadie/Alfred Wegener Institute Logging extensive areas of boreal forests and submerging the trees in the Arctic Ocean could…
Congo’s rainforest ranks as the second largest globally Güntaguni/Getty Images Africa’s forests currently release more carbon dioxide than they can absorb, complicating global efforts to achieve…
Wildfires like the one in Greece in 2024 emitted significant quantities of carbon dioxide. Xinhua News Agency/Alamy Stock Photo The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has disclosed…
The new Google Data Centre in Essex is projected to emit over 500 tons of carbon dioxide annually. Spanning 52 hectares (128 acres), the “Hyperscale Data…
Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images A Shared Narrative2: It’s EverythingPeter Brunnen (Allen Lane) Carbon dioxide influences our perceptions. Emissions from power stations, vehicle exhausts, and the…
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin at the agency’s headquarters. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images The Trump administration seeks to undermine the U.S. government’s capacity to regulate greenhouse gas emissions…
Carbon dioxide monitoring at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii may be discontinued due to US budget cuts noaa Scientists from various countries are urged to…
Reducing emissions and capturing carbon is essential to limit warming Richard Saker/Alamy The planet must eliminate hundreds of billions of tons of carbon dioxide to keep…
Recent data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the University of California, San Diego, indicates that the Earth’s atmosphere contains millions, and potentially tens…
Floating solar farm in Huainan, China is part of the country’s renewable energy expansion Imago/Alamy As the world’s leading emitter of carbon dioxide, China has recorded…
Olivine rock naturally reacts with carbon dioxide, but it’s a slow business Renhour48 via Wikimedia/CC0 1.0 Universal The new process will allow crushed rocks to capture…
Wildfires in the tropics caused a slight increase in CO2 emissions, but most of that was due to burning fossil fuelsCarl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images Carbon dioxide…
Approximately 3% of all carbon emissions come from shipping green oak/shutterstock A container ship with a total length of 240 meters. sounion trader recently completed testing…
In bottom trawling, a weighted net is dragged across the ocean floor.NarisaFotoSS/Shutterstock Bottom trawling releases about 340 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each…
A diagram of Earth 65 million years ago, when CO2 levels were much higher than today. Chris Butler/Science Photo Library Perhaps the most difficult question in…