Allentown chemist wins national award for catalysis research
...t ions - and turned NOx into nitrogen, with carbon dioxide and water as other products. "We generated a lot of new knowledge, and then others picked up the banner. It will probably become the technology of choice," he said. Armor received his undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University in 196...Controlling greenhouse gas carbon dioxide through carbon sequestration two-day symposium, April 2-3
...ecision not to seek mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, researchers at the American Chemical So...uld, in the future, turn the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into carbonate rocks or even into natural gas. This could be accomplished by mimicking natural geolo...Designer solvents promise revolutionary pollution solution
...as contains many contaminants, particularly carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide. They "sour" the gas, lowerin...incorporate chemical groups that react with carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, literally binding them into the solvent. Preliminary results indicate that hea...First chapter of Earth's "biological record" documented from space
...osynthesis by land plants and algae absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ocean, which plays a criti...erm changes caused by such things as higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere," Behrenfeld concluded. "The SeaWiFS record provides a baseline against whi...Pasadena chemist wins national award for environmental research
...g pollutants in water with fiber optics. "Titanium dioxide and light, for example, will generate hydroxy radi...ocess. Organic contaminants are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water." The environmental chemist said a Gilbert chemistry set introduced him to hands-on scie......sday, April 1-5.) Monday, April 2 Carbon dioxide storage could help offset global warming - In the...ecision not to seek mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, researchers will discuss R&D options for fighting global warming through carbon sequestra...Biodiversity increases ecosystems' ability to absorb CO2 and nitrogen
...plant ecosystems were better able to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N), both of which are on the rise due to human activities and industrial processes. "The key implication of this research is that, in response to elevated levels of CO2 and N, ecosystems with high biodiversity will take up and seq...New technology reduces noxious emissions
...duced emissions levels for nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons. New hybrid, light-duty diesel e...nd actually emit less of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than gasoline engines. However, unlike gasoline engines, there is no technology that can sufficient...URI oceanographers discover how planetary waves affect phytoplankton production
...roductivity in the ocean is one of the ways carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere," added Uz. "The ocean removes enough carbon that any variability in this uptake has significant impact on the projections of global warming. We do not know enough about all the mechanisms that control the strength and ...Genetically modified earth plants will glow from Mars
...esis," which would use plants to reduce the carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere and produce oxygen for life processes. Although the plants are genetically engineered to detect -- and then adapt to -- certain environmental stressors, terra-forming presentsadditional obstacles. Schuerger said that on Mar......vice could do an adequate job of exchanging carbon dioxide and oxygen in patients with compromised lungs, all...ranes that introduce oxygen into and remove carbon dioxide from the body. Key to its design, and a distinction from the device that failed, is a central balloo...LSU researcher finds new petroleum method, receives patent
... products, such as gasoline, releases "new" carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is a major factor in the global greenhouse effect. "The approach documented in this patent builds a concept of renewable petroleum sources that have a reduced environmental impact," Catallo said. Many experts estimate k...Krauss book explores universe from oxygen atom's perspective
...ule containing our oxygen atom reacted with carbon dioxide to form carbonic acid, falling in an early acid ra...pewed it into the atmosphere as part of the carbon dioxide molecule. The cycle continued to repeat itself every 10-100 million years as life forms began to evo...Deregulation will cause significant fluctuations in electricity prices, new study reveals
...environment - particularly on the amount of carbon dioxide emissions, considered a leading cause of global wa... a year during the next decade as expected, carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants will increase by a slower annual rate of 0.9 to 1.3 percent. This t......ide as an energy source for the fixation of carbon dioxide into organic compounds, which are passed on to the host. Sulfide concentrations in the worm's environment are unusually low, so low that the scientists were at first puzzled how the worm and its primary symbiont could survive. This question was answe......ffusing and reacting with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide (CO2), which desorbed. Similar reactions help eliminate toxic CO from car exhaust. Throughout this process, various two-dimensional patterns emerged as a result of surface changes induced by the reaction. Scientists manipulated these events by changi...Soil fertility limits forests capacity to absorb excess CO2.
...---A field study on the effects of elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) on forest ecosystems raises doubts about the ability of trees to absorb excess CO2 accumulating in the earth's atmosphere. Results of the seven-year study, to be published in the May 24 issue of Nature, show that some forests will not increas......ts grow in the higher atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected by the mid 21st century suggest that tre...ly exposed to 1 1/2 times current levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), that initial growth spurt dropped back to only marginal gains after the first three years. R...International scientists probe unsolved puzzles of the Earth and beyond at "Earth System Processes"
...anisms that regulate atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, and several climate models are discussed. A few highlights are noted below. James Alcock, Environmental Sciences, Penn State Abington College, takes an interesting look at tropical rainforest stability, derived in part from the ability to h......to Protocol encourages countries to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by planting more trees. But the Protocol fails to consider conservation, and countries could meet their commitment by replacing mature forests with rapidly-growing plantations. "Replacement of old forests with plantations is...