New research could improve the efficiency of electrochemical carbon-dioxide capture and release by six times and cut costs by at least 20 percent. Researchers added nanoscale filtering membranes to a ...

A new perspective highlights how dual functional materials that combine CO2 capture and catalytic methanation in one solid ...

Power plants and industrial facilities that emit carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global warming, are hopeful that Congress will keep tax credits for capturing the gas and storing it deep ...

A new physics-based modeling study shows that adaptive, weather-aware control could cut direct air capture energy use by up ...

Demand Summary Rising atmospheric CO2 levels and the cost of carbon capture and sequestration present challenges for the Oil & Gas, ...

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As the world searches for practical ways to slow climate change, scientists are taking a closer look at an unlikely material: biochar, a carbon-rich substance made from agricultural residues, wood ...

The United States has been a leader on innovating and deploying technologies that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. These range from using chemical sorbents and solvents to capture CO2 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The company Climeworks uses large fans to capture carbon dioxide at its Mammoth facility in Iceland. The company Climeworks uses ...

HAWESVILLE, Ky. -- Beside a cow pasture in Hancock County, scientists are drilling through 8,000 feet of rock, hoping to learn how to lock away forever an invisible gas that threatens Earth's climate ...

Could a seemingly magical 300-year-old technology save us from climate change? Chemists have been pulling carbon dioxide out of the air for almost 300 years, but can this seemingly magical technology ...