Tag: Carbon Dioxide - Page 9
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Greenland Questions Global Warming Controls While Embracing Independence
There's always an irony or two in the daily news, and today is no exception: Greenland, the world's largest island, is suffering from the effects of global warming at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe (except for
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Betting on Biochar to Solve Our Super CO2 Imbalance
UN climate talks are bogged down in Poznan, Poland, partly by Polish insistence that a new EU climate deal give them concessions to allow
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Controversial Artist Justifies Bad Behaviour in the Arctic
Why do we all keep leaving the lights on, driving our cars and hopping on airplanes when we know full well it's damaging the environment? There may be several answers to this question: necessity, convenience, selfishness? The connection between
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Southern Ocean Could Hit Ocean Acidification Tipping Point 30 Years Early
Things just went from worse to worser in the Southern Ocean: According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, seasonal changes in pH and the concentration of carbonate could be compounding
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Greyhound Australia to Begin Carbon Offset Program
The global carbon solutions company Cleaner Climate announced a partnership with Greyhound Australia last week. The companies are initiating a carbon offset program that customers can purchase along with their
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Carbonfund.org Offsetting 3 Billion Pounds of CO2
Three billion pounds is more carbon dioxide than many countries produce in an entire year—and thanks to 400,000 individual contributors and 1,000 business partners, that's how much the non-profit Carbonfund.org is
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MINIGAS Could Be Cheaper, More Accurate Greenhouse Gas Detector
Monitoring greenhouse gasses could be made more easy and effective by governments with the MINIGAS. And companies from all over Europe are coming together to create the technology for a super tiny, super sensitive greenhouse gas
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Levels of Super Potent Greenhouse Gas NF3 Four Times Higher Than Previously Thought
When it comes to ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gases based on their warming potential, carbon dioxide actually falls pretty low on the list -- the problem is that there's just too damn much of it. Thankfully, the atmospheric
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Wetland Restoration: The Best Alternative to Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies?
While widespread wetland destruction could unleash the mother of all "carbon bombs," scientists are discovering that the restoration of these vulnerable ecosystems could provide a valuable bulwark to climate change by creating a
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Carbon Capture Make Renewables Look Better, Suggests Swedish Report
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) seems to give the power industry a warm, fuzzy feeling. Vattenfall, Sweden's state-owned power utility has embraced the
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Cheaper, More Credible Carbon "Offsetting" through Permits, Says Village Green
Instead of funding tree planting in Indonesia, wind farms in China or methane capture right here at home, S.F.-based Village Green (of "Green My Vino" fame) is trying a different route - selling directly to consumers permits from the fledgling carbon
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German Scientist Outlines Massive Iron Fertilization Plan to Save the Antarctic
To save Antarctica from following the fate of the (doomed) Arctic ice cap, we must place our faith in phytoplankton, says Victor Shahed Smetacek. Though it may already be too late to save the Arctic -- as we've written before, most
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Synthetic CO2 Scrubbers, Hydrogen Microcabs and A Tree-Powered Sensor
:: Could synthetic trees be used as CO2 scrubbers?
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An Icy Reprieve for Our Climate Woes? Not Quite
Finally some "upbeat" news on climate change: According to a new study published in the latest issue of Science, permafrost may be more resistant to warmer temperatures than previously thought -- which means we may not yet
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Carbon Offset Watch Ranks the Voluntary Carbon Market
This week the covers were taken off a new consumer resource -- an independent ranking of Australian carbon offset providers. The Total Environment Centre, the consumer advocacy group Choice, and the Institute for Sustainable Futures combined their
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Beer Brewery Has a Solution for What Ales Us: Walk to the Pub
What better way to reach Aussies with a message about climate change than through one of their favourite things:- Beer? Coopers Brewery have been running this series of catchy bus stop posters for a year or so now. Whilst I reckon these adverts probably
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Permafrost Holds Twice as Much GHGs as Previously Thought: Over 1500 Billion Tons of CO2 and Methane
Following on the heels of a recently published study in the journal Nature Geoscience, which estimated that Arctic permafrost could hold 60% more organic carbon than previously thought, a team of scientists from Australia's
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Former Chief UK Scientist Calls for Complete Removal of Fossil Fuel Dependence
Particle Physics, Mars Landings, or the Future of Civilization? The former Chief UK Scientist, Sir David King, has made the pages of TreeHugger before with his predictions that plans to stabilize atmospheric CO2 emissions under 450 parts per million
