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New Cement Eats CO2 - Fights Global Warming

In Treehugger - Posted 6 days ago

Cement: From Carbon Source to Carbon Sink?Lloyd has written before about cement as the unheralded polluter - in fact some estimates suggest that...

Tags: carbon co2 emissions global warming

Earth Policy Institute: Planting Trees and Managing Soils to Sequester Carbon

In Sustainablog - Posted 1 week ago

By Lester R. BrownAs of 2007, the shrinking forests in the tropical regions were releasing 2.2 billion tons of carbon per year. Meanwhile, expanding f...

Tags: asia carbon global warming indonesia policy

The Next Secretary of Energy: Will He Flinch & Cave to the Fossil Fuel Culture?

In R-Squared Energy Blog - Posted 2 weeks ago

The following guest submission is from a poster who wishes to be identified as 'Silverthorne-Cebes', and describes himself as: Economist, retired; pa...

Tags: batteries carbon carbon sequestration co2 desalinization emissions energy efficiency ethanol fossil fuel natural gas nuclear ocean currents ocean energy renewable renewable energy

European conquest of the Americas may have driven global cooling

In Mongabay.com: Environment News - Posted 3 weeks ago

Recovery of forests following the collapse of human populations in the Americas after the arrival of Europeans may have driven the period of global co...

Tags: carbon european report

Biochar and its Role in Mitigating Climate Change

In Mongabay.com: Environment News - Posted 3 weeks ago

The growing concerns about climate change have brought biochar, a charcoal produced from biomass combustion, into limelight. Biochar is a carbon-rich,...

Tags: air pollution asia carbon carbon dioxide climate change co2 pollution

Carbon Sequestration in Practice

In R-Squared Energy Blog - Posted 3 weeks ago

First of its Kind: Sequestered Carbon in Sneek, the NetherlandsBack in March, I left my job with ConocoPhillips to become the Engineering Director for...

Tags: analysis biodiesel carbon carbon emissions carbon sequestration co2 emissions fossil fuel fossil fuels report

Rainforests continue to fall but hope may rest in a market solution

In Mongabay.com: Environment News - Posted 4 weeks ago

Environmentalists attempting to preserve the vanishing Amazon rain forest now confront a stark paradox: Never before have they succeeded in protecting...

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Deal on forests falls short

In Mongabay.com: Environment News - Posted 4 weeks ago

A deal reached Wednesday in Poznan to include forests in future climate treaties is a positive step but falls short of the progress needed to get the ...

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Macedonians plant six million trees in one day

In Mongabay.com: Environment News - Posted 4 weeks ago

While the world meets in Poznan, Poland to discuss actions related to global warming, the small Republic of Macedonia has already achieved an impressi...

Tags: global warming macedonia poland

What allows rainforests to grow so wildly?

In Mongabay.com: Environment News - Posted 4 weeks ago

Molybdenum, a rare trace element, is the secret to rainforests' lush growth, reports research published in the journal Nature Geoscience....

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