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How the Sponge Stays Slim

Monday, November 16th, 2009 - 09:45:22 - Anuradha Menon

Biologists have discovered how a reef-dwelling species of sponge can filter enormous amounts of carbon without growing in size. The sponge Halisarca...

Give Forests Back to Local People to Save

Thursday, October 8th, 2009 - 10:12:15 - Anuradha Menon

Give tropical forests back to the people who live in them – and the trees will soak up your carbon for you. Above all, keep the forests out of the...

Filling Fullerene with Radioactive Atoms
Monday, August 24th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
Scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) have developed a hands-off process for filling fullerenes with...

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Nanotubes Sharpen X-Ray Vision

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 - 09:01:10 - Anuradha Menon

It's taken more than a century, but X-rays are finally getting a shake-up. A new way of generating them uses carbon nanotubes and could allow...

G8 Leaders Fail to Agree on Carbon Cuts

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 - 16:25:47 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Leaders of the world's major industrialized nations have formally agreed for the first time that average global temperatures should not increase by...

Countries Betting Tech Can Clean Up Coal

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 - 12:24:38 - Sarah Gingichashvili

In the high-stakes game of climate change, the United States and other countries are betting on the idea that technology can make dirty coal cleaner...

Greening the Internet

Saturday, July 11th, 2009 - 14:45:32 - Anuradha Menon

Twenty milligrams; that's the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article...

Carbon Nanotubes Dangerous to the Environment
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 - Anni Shaer Levitt
Scientists from the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) have discovered worrying properties of carbon...