Coastal water absorbing more carbon dioxide

02-Feb-2018 - As more carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, the global ocean soaks up much of the excess, storing roughly 30 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions coming from human activities. In this sense, the ocean has acted as a buffer to slow down the greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and, ...

Huge carbon sink in soil minerals

09-Nov-2017 - A Washington State University researcher has discovered that vast amounts of carbon can be stored by soil minerals more than a foot below the surface. The finding could help offset the rising greenhouse-gas emissions helping warm the Earth's climate. Marc Kramer, an assistant professor of ...

Trash to treasure

The benefits of waste-to-energy technologies

30-Aug-2017 - Instead of hauling food waste to landfills, we might want to use that organic waste to power garbage trucks, your car, truck or SUV while at the same time potentially helping the environment. Organic waste such as yard trimmings, paper, wood and food produces millions of tons of methane emissions ...

A fresh role for nitric oxide

20-Jul-2017 - Cornell University chemists have uncovered a fresh role for nitric oxide that could send biochemical textbooks back for revision. They have identified a critical step in the nitrification process, which is partly responsible for agricultural emissions of harmful nitrous oxide and its chemical ...

50-state plan to transform US to renewable energy

18-Feb-2014 - Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson and his colleagues recently developed detailed plans to transform the energy infrastructure of New York, California and Washington states from fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable resources by 2050. The online interactive roadmap is tailored to maximize the ...

A milestone for new carbon-dioxide capture/clean coal technology

22-Mar-2013 - An innovative new process that releases the energy in coal without burning — while capturing carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas — has passed a milestone on the route to possible commercial use, scientists are reporting. Their study in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels describes results of a ...

Researchers show applied electric field can significantly improve hydrogen storage properties

05-Feb-2010 - An international team of researchers has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics and reversibility of the system. Many researchers have their sights set on hydrogen as an ...

DuPont Forms New Business to Accelerate Growth

Chemicals & Fluoroproducts Business Brings Scope and Scale to Drive Growth in $10 Billion Market

23-Oct-2009 - DuPont announced the merger of two businesses, DuPont Chemical Solutions Enterprise and DuPont Fluoroproducts, into a single powerhouse unit named DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts – accelerating growth by expanding global market access, leveraging DuPont’s unparalleled science and chemistry ...

Toward the design of greener consumer products

18-Sep-2009 - So you're a manufacturer about to introduce a new consumer product to the marketplace. Will that product or the manufacture of the product contribute to global warming through the greenhouse effect? Until now, there was no clear way to answer that question. Scientists are reporting development of ...

TVA fertilizer technology used worldwide - but few new products since 1970s

27-Aug-2008 - About 75% of fertilizers and fertilizer technology used around the world today were developed or improved during the 1950s to 1970s by scientists and engineers at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the United States, says John Shields, a former TVA official. Shields is now Interim Director ...