Symbiotic CO₂ Sequestration

Bioengineered microbial community working together to store carbon

14-Dec-2022 - Photosynthesis is a valuable natural system for sequestering carbon dioxide. However, simply forming biomass does not fully exploit this system. A Chinese team of researchers, whose study is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, has now genetically engineered a microbial community which ...

Rapid imaging of granular matter

22-Sep-2017 - Even in our modern world full of highly technological machines and devices it is still impossible to predict when rockslides, such as the recent one in Graubünden, or earthquakes will occur and how exactly they evolve. This is partly due to the fact that despite many years of research, scientists ...

Carbon dioxide tucked into basalt converts to rock

22-Nov-2016 - In November, the Paris Climate Agreement goes into effect to reduce global carbon emissions. To achieve the set targets, experts say capturing and storing carbon must be part of the solution. Several projects throughout the world are trying to make that happen. Now, a study on one of those ...

New technique both enhances oil recovery and sequesters carbon dioxide

21-Dec-2015 - A proposed recovery technique for oil extraction developed by a Penn State-led research team not only outperforms existing drilling and recovery techniques, but also has the potential to sequester more carbon dioxide in the process. The team estimated that companies using this new technique would ...

Lazy microbes are key for soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration

03-Dec-2015 - The world's soils store on the order of 2500 gigatons of carbon, which is three times the amount in the atmosphere (or equivalent to 9170 gigatons of CO2). Yet the mechanisms behind this storage are not completely understood. A new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that ...

Carbon sequestration in soil

The potential underfoot

21-Oct-2015 - A new study projects that carbon sequestration in European cropland could store between 9 and 38 megatons of carbon dioxide (Mt CO2) per year in the soil, or as much as 7% of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in the European Union, at a price of carbon of 100 $/tCO2. “However, ...

Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in Germany

How Germany can decarbonize its energy system and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% until 2050

04-Sep-2015 - In order to take an important step towards limiting global warming to less than 2 °C compared to pre-industrial times, countries are expected to achieve a new international agreement on the climate at the UN climate conference in Paris at the end of the year. According to climate science, this ...

Soaking up carbon dioxide and turning it into valuable products

Berkeley Lab researchers double down on a good thing by incorporating catalysts into crystalline sponges

31-Aug-2015 - A molecular system for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide has been modified so that it now also holds great promise as a catalyst for converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemical products. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

Carbon Clean Solutions Awarded as Technology Pioneer

Carbon Clean Solutions’ technology enables the low cost capture of CO2 from power plants and industrial processes

07-Aug-2015 - Carbon Clean Solutions (CCS) was awarded as one of the World Economic Forum’s “technology pioneers”, a selection of the world’s most innovative companies. CCS was founded by two graduates from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India) and has received strong support from the UK ...

New International Forum for Heavy Metal Research

01-Nov-2012 - Research on radioactive heavy metals in environmental systems considers diverse tasks, e.g. restoration measures for contaminated industrial fallow grounds, the safe storage of chemical-toxic and radioactive waste, carbon dioxide sequestration to reduce green-house gas emissions as well as the ...