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Study Reveals Payments are Not Attractive Enough to Protect Forests in Southeast Asia

According to researchers, efforts to safeguard tropical forests for the carbon they store may be unsuccessful as protection payments are extremely low.

7 Mar 2018

Continental Shelves Become Important Carbon Dioxide Sinks

As carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, the global ocean takes in the excess, storing almost 30% of the CO2 emissions generated from human activities.

1 Feb 2018

MIT Panelists Weigh Advantages and Disadvantages of Carbon Pricing

Many economists across the political spectrum agree that carbon pricing could provide a cost-effective strategy to accelerate a transition to a low-carbon economy and reduce carbon emissions that play a key role in global climate change.

31 Jan 2018

U of T Researchers Develop Innovative Catalyst for Simulating Photosynthesis

Scientists from U of T Engineering have now reached close to achieving artificial photosynthesis, where similar to plants, renewable energy is used to transform carbon dioxide, or CO2, into stored chemical energy. They achieved this by developing an innovative catalyst.

21 Nov 2017

Direct Conversion of CH4 and CO2 into Liquid Fuels to Arrest Gas Flaring in Oil Wells

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have achieved a remarkable advancement in directly transforming methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemicals and liquid fuels that can assist in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and also synthesizing precious chemical feedstocks.

9 Oct 2017

Study Suggests Ancient Global Warming is Driven by Massive Carbon Emissions from Volcanoes

According to a new study, headed by the University of Southampton and involving a group of International Researchers, massive CO2 emissions from volcanoes were responsible for the extreme global warming event that occurred 56 million years ago, during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean. The study has been reported in Nature.

31 Aug 2017