Over the course of several months, researchers in Israel created Escherichia coli strains that consume…
Browsing: Carbon Dioxide
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a colorless, odorless gas that plays a vital role in Earth’s atmosphere and biological systems. Produced naturally through processes like respiration, volcanic eruptions, and decomposition, it is also emitted in large quantities by human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation. CO₂ is essential for photosynthesis, enabling plants to convert sunlight into energy, but its increasing concentration in the atmosphere is a major driver of climate change. Scientists closely monitor carbon dioxide levels to understand their impact on global temperatures, ocean chemistry, and ecosystems, making it a central topic in environmental and climate research.
Carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the world’s atmosphere. Not 0.4% or 4%, but 0.04%!…
Arctic regions have captured and stored carbon for tens of thousands of years, but a…
Something old, something new in the ocean’s blue: The discovery of a forgotten metabolic pathway…
Scientists have created an “artificial leaf” to fight climate change by inexpensively converting harmful carbon…
Researchers develop process for carbon dioxide conversion. University of Sydney researchers are drawing inspiration from…
Current approaches to carbon capture can increase air pollution and are not efficient at reducing…
For the first time, an EPFL-led team of scientists has measured the total amount of…
A new material that can selectively capture carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules and efficiently convert them…
Scientists discover evidence for past high-level sea rise at current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Mallorcan…
Study of the world’s tropical forests pinpoints how much water plants put back into the…
Microbial communities living in deep aquatic sediments have adapted to survive on degraded organic matter,…
In July 2015, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Gina McCarthy was being grilled by lawmakers…
A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air,…
New lithium-based battery could make use of greenhouse gas before it ever gets into the…
Scientists at MIT have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting…
A newly published study provides space-based evidence that Earth’s tropical regions were the cause of…
Using a zinc-porphyrin electrocatalyst, chemists from Yale University and Oregon State University have discovered the…