Items tagged with carbon-dioxide

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Gardening in Space with HydroTropi Thursday, January 20th, 2011 - 18:13:07 - Anuradha Menon Plants are fundamental to life on Earth, converting light and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. Plant growth may be an important part of human... read more

'All The Way' With Renewable Energy? Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 - 18:50:41 - Anuradha Menon In a world where fossil fuel provides more than 80 percent of energy, what would it take to go completely green? Could the world switch over to power... read more

Climate Pledges Are 9 Gigatonnes Short Thursday, December 9th, 2010 - 12:19:46 - Anuradha Menon The "gigatonne gap" looms large as UN climate talks in Cancún, Mexico, enter their final days without new commitments from big... read more

Volcanic Eruptions and Ocean Life Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 - 11:56:02 - Ehud Rattner The volcanic eruption in Iceland has given scientists a unique opportunity to study its effect on marine biology. An international team of scientists... read more

A Cheaper Way To Catch CO2 Friday, July 23rd, 2010 - 12:32:12 - Anuradha Menon Adding carbon-capture technology to a conventional coal plant can nearly double the price of the electricity it produces. This fact represents one of... read more

Adaptation in Mole Blood Aids Tunnelling Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 - 09:56:08 - Ehud Rattner Super hemoglobin' allows moles to thrive underground. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have made the first... read more

Soaring Arctic Temperatures Friday, July 9th, 2010 - 12:17:31 - Anuradha Menon With carbon dioxide levels close to our own, the Arctic of the Pliocene epoch may have warmed much more than previously thought – and the modern... read more

Turbo-Boosting Plants Won't Save Us Thursday, July 1st, 2010 - 12:28:09 - Anuradha Menon Humans are pumping extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but isn't that just plant food? After all, plants take in CO2 and use it to make sugar... read more

Scientists Build a Rat Lung Thursday, June 24th, 2010 - 14:06:34 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have made partly functioning rat lungs in the laboratory, a small yet tantalizing step in the quest to create fresh body parts for... read more

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