- November 12, 2014Sustainability
New Amazon Carbon Maps Could Slow Deforestation
- Forest managers can use new observations to track tree cutting but also carbon sequestration
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- April 27, 2011The Green-Grok
Is FutureGen betting on the wrong rock?
- Commercial rival says gas spreading and leakage could harm US carbon-sequestration effort.
- April 30, 2018Policy & Ethics
California to Extend Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Through 2030
- Plan seeks to encourage carbon sequestration development and expand options for credits
- Debra Kahn and E&E News
- July 18, 2014Sustainability
World's Largest Carbon Capture Facility Under Construction in Texas
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) could be a key technology option in reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the world's fossil fuel power plants.
- Melissa C. Lott
- July 31, 2015Sustainability
Forests Suck Up Less Carbon after Drought
- Tree growth lags below normal for several years following droughts, a detail about carbon sequestration that climate models currently overlook. Christopher Intagliata reports
- Christopher Intagliata
- November 29, 2010Sustainability
The Truth about the Risks to Freshwater Aquifers Posed by Underground Carbon Sequestration
- Rather than raising alarm, new study results could help pave the way toward better methods for monitoring geologic carbon sequestration areas and detecting CO2 leaks
- Mike Orcutt
- October 18, 2010Sustainability
Flower Power: Genetic Modification Could Amply Boost Plants' Carbon-Capture and Bioenergy Capacity
- A new review sums up options for increasing global carbon sequestration by flora and speculates that genetically engineering crops and trees could enhance the process, trapping gigatons of the greenhouse gas as well as increasing bioenergy production...
- Mike Orcutt
- March 14, 2007Sustainability
Future of "Clean Coal" Power Tied to (Uncertain) Success of Carbon Capture and Storage
- A new report confirms that coal has a large role to play in meeting the world's energy demands, but to avoid runaway climate change, technologies to sequester its carbon need to advance quickly...
- David Biello
- March 16, 2012Sustainability
Can Fracking and Carbon Sequestration Coexist?
- Drilling for natural gas and storing CO2 deep underground may be headed for a collision
- Christa Marshall and ClimateWire
- December 19, 2007Tech
New Power Plant Aims to Help Coal Clean Up
- A "clean coal" power plant is set to be built in Illinois in 2009; if it works, it could help avoid catastrophic global warming
- David Biello
- April 7, 2009Sustainability
Regrowing Forests Could Provide Climate Change Help
- A new study shows that allowing cleared forest to grow back can help cut down carbon dioxide emissions
- Katie Howell
- December 12, 2011
Good and Possible: Climate Talks, Carbon Capture
- In the words of Maite Nkoana-Mashabane * , President of the Durban UN Climate Change Conference, " we should not let the perfect become the enemy of the good and the possible ."..
- Melissa C. Lott
- July 14, 2011Sustainability
Soils May Amplify Warming Power of Greenhouse Gases
- Soil microbes may release even more greenhouse gases
- Tiffany Stecker and ClimateWire
- April 11, 2016Environment
Why Can't We Plant Trees in Highway Medians?
- There are stretches of thousands of miles of barren interstate in the U.S.
- EarthTalk
- July 29, 2013Sustainability
Pilot Projects Bury CO2 in Basalt
- Two experiments are testing the viability of sequestering emissions in porous layers of hard rock
- Jeff Tollefson and Nature magazine
- November 1, 2006Sustainability
Keeping CO2 Down
- The first U.S. project for carbon dioxide burial gives mixed results
- Rebecca Renner
- November 2006
- 10.1038/scientificamerican1106-22
- September 12, 2011Sustainability
Large Carbon Sequestration Project Ramps Up at Corn Ethanol Facility
- Efforts to capture the CO2 from making ethanol could help develop the technology for coal-fired power plants
- Christa Marshall and ClimateWire
- May 5, 2011Tech
Political Doubt Hinders Carbon Sequestration Projects
- But countries could still meet deployment goals for this decade.
- May 1, 2008Sustainability
Charcoal in Burned Forests No Way to Store Carbon
- A 10-year experiment shows that trees turned to charcoal may release more carbon than previously thought
- David Biello
- November 18, 2016Environment
Scientists Take Another Step toward Safely Burying CO2
- Researchers have successfully turned carbon dioxide into solid rock by injecting it into ancient lava flows
- Bobby Magill and Climate Central
