Humankind will need to harness carbon capture and storage technologies to help keep global warming to 2 degrees C or less; new research shows that there's plenty of room to store captured CO2—in offshore geologic rock formations

So far, the materials and processes involved in carbon capture and storage have been associated with significant negative side effects and high costs

A recent study identifies a potential mechanism that could be used to decrease atmospheric CO₂ via enhanced soil carbon storage

The process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions to open air

The captured CO2 can be converted into useful organic materials

Carbon capture can be done using so-called "high-performance membranes," which are polymer filters that can specifically pick out CO₂ from a mix of gases

Lithium-based battery could make use of greenhouse gas before it ever gets into the atmosphere

A UF researcher and his team based their findings on systematic forest inventories of trees in the eastern U.S. from the 1980s to the 2000s

Continental shelves are an increasing global sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide