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Carbon Dioxide

Turning CO2 Into Car Fuel: Can It Be Done?

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Researchers in Bath and Bristol are working to discover if carbon dioxide extracted from air could be turned to car fuel....

Calera, Silicon Valley Start-Up Says It Can Capture Carbon Emissions In Cement

The New York Times | CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

It seems like alchemy: a Silicon Valley start-up says it has found a way to capture the carbon dioxide emissions from coal and gas power plants and lo...

The Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill: Ch-Ch-Changes and Lots of Loose Change

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Bill Chameides

Here's an early thumbnail sketch of some of who's getting what in the Kerry-Lieberman (and perhaps Graham) bill.

Wishing Upon a Star and Other Scientific Methods

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jeff Schweitzer

Congressmen in these two states believe that scientific inquiry can be reduced to the fiats of legislation, and that objective truth can be discovered through the passage of state law.

Global Warming Makes Trees Grow At Fastest Rate For 200 Years, Study Finds

The Independent | Steve Connor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Forests in the northern hemisphere could be growing faster now than they were 200 years ago as a result of climate change, according to a study of tre...

Lisa Murkowski Wants To Block The EPA From Regulating Greenhouse Gases, Has Democratic Co-Sponsor

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Scroll Down For Update It appears that one Republican female politician from Alaska has managed to drum up some Democratic support in the Senate. In ...

The Real Victims Of Climate Change Have No Voice In Copenhagen (PHOTOS)

Alun Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Alun Anderson

Look north and you will see the biggest and fastest change to our planet ever caused by humans. It won't go away as a result of talk or promises. The frozen Arctic seas are melting away now.

Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap

A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
A. Siegel

The authors of Superfreakonomics super(freaky)star status means that they and their travesty of a book will get attention despite its non-truthful truthiness and misleading mediocrity on climate-change.

In Support of 350, It's Myth Bustin' Time: "Carbon Dioxide is Just a Trace Gas, Big Deal"

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jeff Goldstein

For all those that do not want to pay homage to CO2, I say -- stop eating. Or at least stop throwing around the expression "trace gas" so loosely.

Increased CO2 In Atmosphere Makes Oceans Louder

The New York Times | HENRY FOUNTAIN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Here is another consequence of rising carbon dioxide emissions: the oceans are getting louder....

Fox's News Corp. Begins Keeping Tabs of All Its CO2 Emissions

treehugger.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

News Corp. - owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other media properties - is adding software to help manage its environmental impa...

Colorado Air Division Thumbs Nose at Governor Ritter

Jeremy Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Jeremy Nichols

The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division rejected calls to keep CO2 emission in check at the Valmont coal-fired power plant in Boulder. Are there any limits on carbon in Colorado?

Letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
John DeCock

What's the deal with this amendment to prevent the EPA from regulating green house gases? I'm sure the amendment's ghost writers (i.e. the polluters) have their reasons, but we prefer to protect the environment.

Climate Change and Jesus in a Burnt Toast

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jeff Schweitzer

Global warming skeptics believe they have proof now that climate change is a liberal plot. They do not, and the phenomenon of climate change remains robust in spite of a few misinterpreted emails.

Carbon Management: A Call to Action for the U.S. and China

Scott Daniels | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Scott Daniels

As President Obama prepares to set foot on Chinese soil for the first time today, the United States and China, the globe's leading greenhouse gas producers, are engaged in a classic standoff.

SuperFreakonomics Authors Forced To Answer Critics

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Since we posted the video and teaser for SuperFreakonomics, the follow up to the bestseller Freakonomics, there's been an outcry from scientists over ...

Copenhagen Climate Talks Near Deal On Preservation Of Forests

New York Times | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

COPENHAGEN -- Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other natu...

A Climate Threat, Rising From The Soil

washingtonpost.com | Andrew Higgins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Peat, formed over thousands of years from decomposed trees, grass and scrub, contains gigantic quantities of carbon dioxide, which used to stay locked...

Interactive Map: How A 4C Rise Will Affect The Planet

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

A map launched at the Science Museum in London has been developed using the latest peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other l...

How to Green Your 2010

Avital Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Avital Andrews

Whether you call them resolutions, goals, or lifestyle changes, here are four key measures you can take to make 2010 easier on the planet.

Climate Change: Too Much At Stake

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jim Selman

To the extent that we speak from our hearts about the world we want to create, we will attract energy, resources and support--and inspire others to act.

Scientists Propose Engineering The Atmosphere To Cool Planet

Mother Nature Network | Katherine Butler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Love the blue skies that greet you on a sunny day? Don't get too used to it. Scientists have proposed a last-resort solution to climate change. It inv...

Google Maps Earth's Carbon Cycle

treehugger.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Google Earth has a new application that shows carbon dioxide in different layers of the earth's atmosphere....

Can Condoms Fight Climate Change?

washingtonpost.com | David A. Fahrenthold | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

To heck with carbon dioxide. A new study performed by the London School of Economics suggests that, to fight climate change, governments should focus ...

Australia Overtakes U.S. As Biggest Polluter: report

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

SYDNEY (AFP) �" Australians have overtaken Americans as the world's biggest individual producers of carbon dioxide, which is blamed for global warmi...