ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATEHow does Iceland keep their air clean despite carbon emissions? They turn it into rocks. Iceland is known as the Land of Fire and Ice due to its extremes with glacier and volcanic springs located next to each other.
A new method has been devised to speed up the process of petrifying carbon dioxide. In Iceland, scientists are transforming carbon dioxide into rock, cleaning the air of harmful emissions that cause global warming.
Despite repeated warnings from the experts, people have gone out of their way to contribute to the increase in the amount of carbon emissions in the atmosphere and the adverse effects are just starting to be felt.
Tree rings mean so much, but scientist reveals what they tell us about the secrets of the forest and how it survives day-to-day despite the harsh effects of climate change.
Data from 1994 to 2007 of carbon dioxide in ocean sinks determined ETH Zurich environmental physics professor Nicolas Gruber and his team have determined the ocean sink from 1994 to 2007.
Carbon dioxide has a new process of converting it into coal Scientists from RMIT University have discovered an economically viable process of converting carbon dioxide into solid coal through liquid metals.
A recent research study has suggested that the Earth will experience an increment by 1.3-degree warming even after reducing the emission of the greenhouse gas.
Biodegradable plastics will soon be replacing plastics made from petrochemicals. It took chemists a 100 years til the breakthrough to produce plastics from a sustainable source.
The prospect of the creation of new fuels and other hydrocarbon is something that could add more renewable sources of energy made available by the Technical Research Institute in Finland and the Lappeenranta University of Technology.
Two factories aims to save the environment through capturing carbon dioxide from the air. The carbon dioxides are converted into pellets and fertilizers for greehouses.
Finally, a new filtration process that does not cost much to operate. The next step for the silicon polymer material device is to evaluate its reaction with salts and other strained particles.
Carbon Dioxide is toxic to humans and animals. If left unchecked in enclosures, homes, and buildings, it could be fatal and can cause death. Studies are now being implemented how to compute the levels of CO2 in homes and buildings with respect to its occupants.
A recent study showed that high carbon dioxide level has big impact to oceans as it makes seawater more acidic, which in turn hampers marine process called nitrogen fixation.