Chemically, carbon dioxide is incredibly simple – it is just one carbon atom linked with two oxygen atoms. Together they create a colorless gas that makes up just a tiny fraction of the Earth's ...

What if it were possible to take a very slow geological process, one that takes thousands of years in nature, and speed it up ...

A joint research team has developed a highly efficient photocatalyst that can convert carbon dioxide into the ...

DENVER – Get ready to hear a lot about climate-change-fighting "carbon capture" in the coming months as private businesses and nonprofits race to qualify for tens of billions of dollars in new federal ...

John Locher/AP / AP The amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has hit a new record, as humanity struggles to rein in emissions of greenhouse gasses from burning fossil ...

A carbon sink is any natural system that absorbs and stores more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. The largest carbon sinks on Earth are forests, soil, and the ocean, with the latter ...

UCSB research offers a new perspective on how carbon is stored in the deep ocean and what it could mean for maintaining Earth ...

Han and colleagues found that UV light at a wavelength of 185 nm has enough energy to break the bonds in CO 2 and methane and ...

Hundreds of miles of pipeline must be built—and quickly—if California is to meet its fast-approaching deadline for removing millions of tons of climate-altering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Mazda is developing a carbon dioxide trap that cleans not just the air but also your conscience. How feasible the idea is in practice is now up to Mazda to demonstrate, according to an analysis by Ny ...