Three Ways to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Food Purchased by US Households
Researchers assess the actual groceries purchased by US households and identify the hotspots of carbon emissions
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Transforming Atmospheric Carbon into Useful Materials
Researchers propose a more permanent, and even useful, fate for captured carbon by turning plants into a valuable industrial material called silicon carbide
Ocean Uptake of CO2 Could Drop as Carbon Emissions Are Cut
Shrinkage due to COVID-19 may provide case in point
World Can Likely Capture and Store Enough CO2 to Meet Climate Targets
Carbon capture and storage would be used alongside other interventions such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, and electrification of the transportation sector
Nine Climate Tipping Points Now 'Active,' Warn Scientists
This "cascade" of changes sparked by global warming could threaten the existence of human civilizations
Lost Trees Hugely Overrated as Environmental Threat, Study Finds
Carbon emissions from deforestation much smaller than previously thought, economists say
Study Says Climate Impact from Loss of Intact Tropical Forests Grossly Underreported
New numbers reveal a staggering increase in the carbon impacts—626 percent higher than previously thought—due to losses of intact tropical forest between 2000 and 2013
Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide from Air
The process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions to open air
Research Team Discovers New Route to Carbon-Neutral Fuels from Carbon Dioxide
Carbon-neutral re-use of CO2 has emerged as an alternative to burying the greenhouse gas underground
Plastics, Fuels, and Chemical Feedstocks from CO2? They're Working on It
SUNCAT researchers discover a way to improve a key step in these conversions, and explore what it would take to turn the climate-changing gas into valuable products on an industrial scale