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Technique to turn plastic waste trash into carbon dioxide sorbent discover
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Houston (Texas) [US], April 9 (ANI): A new chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an effective carbon dioxide (CO2) sorbent for the industry has been discovered by scientists at Rice University.
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Scientists discover technique to turn plastic waste trash into carbon diox
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Houston (Texas) [US], April 6 (ANI): Scientists at Rice University have discovered a chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an effective carbon dioxide (CO2) sorbent for the industry.
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Carbon removals needed as well as rapid decarbonisation to limit global wa
Updated : 4 years ago IST
London [UK], March 9 (ANI/PR Newswire): In its latest report, Mind the Gap: How Carbon Dioxide Removals Must Complement Deep Decarbonisation to Keep 1.5°C Alive, the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC), describes how carbon dioxide removals (CDR) alongside rapid and deep global decarbon
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NASA selects futuristic space technology concepts for early study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], February 26 (ANI): An astronaut steps into a body scanner and, hours later, walks on Mars in a custom-made spacesuit, breathing oxygen that was extracted from Mars' carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. On Venus, an inflatable bird-like drone swoops through the sky, studying the p
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Researchers identify secret of Venus, hidden in heat of night
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Lisbon [Portugal], February 23 (ANI): The second planet in our Solar System, which shines like a bright star when seen from the Earth and named after the Roman goddess of beauty, is the ever glowing Venus. Underneath its thick mantle of acid sulfuric clouds, at the surface 460 degrees Celsiu
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Floods may be nearly as important as droughts for future carbon accounting
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 1 (ANI): In a global analysis of vegetation over more than three decades, Stanford University researchers found that photosynthesis -- the process by which plants take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere- was primarily influenced by floods and heavy rainfall nearly as
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Asia's oil giants will be key to global climate fight: S&P
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 7 (ANI): Asia's carbon cutting will be critical to the effort to reduce global warming as the region releases more carbon dioxide than rest of the world combined, S&P Global Ratings said on Monday.
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Greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs higher than previously expected:
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 1 (ANI): Global Biogeochemical Cycles shows per-area greenhouse gas emissions from the world's water reservoirs are around 29 per cent higher than suggested by previous studies, revealed a team of researchers. The new study advocates that practical measures could be tak
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Bangalore startup receives award for developing solution for conversion of
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Ministry of Science and Technology on Monday informed that a Bangalore-based startup has received the National Award 2021 from the Technology Development Board (TDB) for developing a commercial solution for the conversion of carbon dioxide to chemicals and fu
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Melting of ice sheets rapidly increase methane in environment, study affir
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Oslo [Norway], April 30 (ANI): Melting of the Arctic ice sheets caused rapid methane release from the ocean floor during the last two deglaciations, according to a new study led by scientists at The University of Tromso - The Arctic University of Norway.
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Global carbon emissions set for second-biggest increase in history: IEA
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Paris [France], Apr 26 (ANI): Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are on course to surge by 1.5 billion tonnes in 2021 - the second-largest increase in history - reversing most of last year's decline caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report s
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 22 (ANI): The growing list of "firsts" for Perseverance, NASA's newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet's thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen.
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