carbon dioxide

CO2 removal ‘gap’ shows countries ‘lack progress’ for 1.5C warming limit

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Plans to “draw down” CO2 from the atmosphere – known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – “fall short” of the quantities needed ...

MIT’s Revolutionary CO2 Conversion Technology

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

MIT chemical engineers have created an efficient method to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, using a DNA-tethered catalytic process that could ...

Accidental Deep Ocean Discovery Changes Our Understanding of Earth

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

New research has identified oceanic transform faults as significant, previously underestimated sinks for CO2, challenging existing notions about the Earth’s geological carbon ...

A Deep Dive Into 66 Million Years of CO2 Data

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The concentration of atmospheric CO2 is currently at a record high of 419 ppm due to human activities, particularly the burning of ...

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, MIT study finds | MIT News

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on ...