Tag: Carbon Sequestration - Page 2
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Scientists Disagree Over Canadian Carbon Sequestration Project Leak
You had to know this was coming... A new piece in Scientific American highlights the objections of some scientists over claims that the world's largest geologic carbon sequestration project in Saskatchewan is leaking.
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CO2 Levels at Leaking Canadian Carbon Storage Project Could Asphyxiate You In One Place
Some more on the leaking carbon sequestration project in Canada that has killed farm animals, and caused all sorts of strange problems for farmers Cameron and Jane Kerr. A new piece in The Tyee fills in some of the background details and the current
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Canadian Carbon Sequestration Project Leaking, Killing Farm Animals & Causing Algae Blooms
Not too much on this one yet, but take it as an example of one of the no-longer theoretical problems of carbon capture and storage: Canada's CTV News is reporting that a CCS project in
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NRDC Assesses Biochar - Says High Hopes For Carbon Storage Premature
There's been lots of back and forth in the past year on biochar, ranging from research showing it has huge potential for absorbing carbon emissions on one side, to uncertainty about its potential, to outright
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Biochar or Compost - What's Best for Soil Quality? (Video)
Despite claims that biochar could offset 12% of human carbon emissions, and boost agricultural production in the process, others are not so sure. Whether it's the author of the biochar solution saying it's not a
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Leaking Underground Carbon Storage Schemes Could Contaminate Drinking Water Aquifers
Add another important concern to the those surrounding carbon capture and storage schemes: A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology, done by scientists at Duke University, shows that CO2 stored
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Author of 'The Biochar Solution' Says 'It's Not a Solution' (Video)
Some believe biochar could offset as much as 12% of CO2 emissions, but others warn that biochar is no miracle cure—with the prospects of large-scale biochar plantations and other such enterprises getting activists
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If Genetically Modified Trees Could Help Stop Climate Change Would You Support Them?
Some new research in Bioscience outlines different ways in which genetically modifying trees and plants to help them increase their carbon sequestration potential to fight climate change--we're talking billions of
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Similar Tropical Forests Store Much Different Amounts of Carbon: New Report
While we've just learned that over 80% of new farmland in the tropics came at the expense of forests, another new study shows us that when it comes to calculating how much carbon tropical forests store, variable on the ground
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Dry Water Could Someday Store CO2 Emissions + Help Power Vehicles
File this one in the maybe someday category: At the national meeting of the American Chemical Society scientists have presented work on the potential of so-called 'dry water' to store gases, with an eye to store carbon emissions as
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Geological Storage of CO2 Emissions Only Viable if Leakage Kept to Less Than 1% in 1000 Years
Even with all the serious doubts about its scalability or financial viability, carbon capture and storage repeatedly continues to get talked up as a key part of a future low-carbon energy economy. Adding to the practical
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Another Major Blow for Carbon Capture, This Time It Involves the "C" Word
Mongstad industrial area at night. Photo Tøssekaien via flickr. The Norwegians have been big supporters of carbon capture and storage, and the government helped get the public to go along with building of a gas-fired plant near an existing oil refinery
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Reforestation in Brazil's Atlantic Forest Could Help Biodiversity Recover
Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section.
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Seagrass Comeback: a Race Against Time and Boat Propellers
One of the dangers to ocean coastlines is due to loss of seagrass meadows. This results in a loss of fish and marine life habitat, a decrease in food supply and
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Jason Aramburu on the Promise of Biochar
Gather up agricultural leftovers, blast them with pyrolysis (high heat, low oxygen), and what you get is a crumbly, black matter that could save the world. Making biochar generates clean energy, and at the same time sequesters carbon dioxide in a
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Who Knew?? Starfish & Sea Urchins Store 2% of Human Carbon Emissions
Though it's a small percentage of the total 5.5 gigatonnes of carbon emissions released annually from human activities, it appears that echinoderms such as starfish, sea urchins and sea lilies are greater
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Rocky Mountains' Subalpine Forests to Lose CO2 Storage Ability as Climate Warms
You still sometimes hear the assertion that as the planet warms longer growing seasons will actually increase CO2
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Scientists Study East Coast Igneous Rocks for CO2 Storage
Here's some interesting research on the storage part of the carbon capture and storage equation: Researchers from Columbia
