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The world is moving away fossil fuels, and there’s nothing Australia can do about it. Racing to dig up and sell whatever fossil fuels we can before the timer stops is not a future-proof strategy.
In ancient Earth’s atmosphere, microbes called acetogens were able to recycle carbon dioxide using chemical energy sources such as hydrogen.
New UK-wide trials aim to discover the best ways to suck carbon from the air.
Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to ‘greenwash’ their lack of commitment to solving global warming.
CO₂ will need to be removed from the atmosphere to avoid catastrophic heating. Can the process be incentivised?
Manufacturing minerals is an expanding field of study. Making more of them could help alleviate various pressures faced by our growing population. But how are they made, and where can they be used?
Carbon Engineering’s clever harnessing of high-school chemistry is just a small step on the path to negative emissions.
Adding industrial chemicals and natural alkaline minerals could slow climate change, but like other geoengineering proposals, it comes with many complex technical and legal challenges.
For the second year in a row global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels have risen, putting 2018 on course to set a new record, according to an annual audit from the Global Carbon Project.
Technology exists to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but it has a big cost.
A disaster fantasy raises questions about tinkering with Earth’s climate. With real-life scientists exploring geoengineering, what conversations should we be having now around these technologies?
The prospect of attempting to engineer the world’s climate has become a lot more real since the Paris Agreement.
Global warming and carbon emissions, left unchecked, could cause rising sea levels and displace almost 200 million people. But we can still prevent the worst case scenario if we act now.
Carbon capture and storage gets a bad rap from its associations with ‘clean coal’. But the technology could prove vital in cutting emissions from other industries like steel, cement and chemicals.
Phasing out greenhouse gas emissions entirely by mid-century is possible, and promising trends are emerging. But the next five to ten years will be the real test of whether we can make that happen.
Despite advances in technology, carbon capture and storage could be unsettled by renewable upstarts.
Sometime soon we’ll need to take more carbon out of the atmosphere than we emit – but how?
A new method for creating a form of graphene with carbon dioxide sucked from the air has been announced with misleading claims.
Like it or not we are going to have to figure out how to suck lots of carbon out of the atmosphere.
Top contributors
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ARC DECRA Fellow/Senior Lecturer, IMAS, University of Tasmania
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CO2Chem Network Manager, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Research in Environmental Policy, American University School of International Service
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Adjunct Professor of Energy, Murdoch University
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Postdoctoral research assistant, University of Sheffield
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Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Ocean and Climate Change, Australian National University
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Conjoint Academic in Sustainability, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, Energy Systems and Data Group, Birmingham Energy Institute, University of Birmingham
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Professorial Research Fellow in Earth System Science, University of Southampton
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Lecturer, Monash University
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Adjunct Research Fellow in Energy and Climate Policy, Columbia University
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James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin School, Environmental Change Institute and Institute for Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford