CO2 emissions

Chemists at UCLA have developed a synthetic gene that captures carbon emissions up to 400% more effectively.

The discovery could lead to cleaner energy, including technology that factories and cars can use to capture carbon dioxide before it reaches the atmosphere.

China’s voracious appetite for energy to fuel its frenetic economic growth is well documented. How China is going to generate that power is less well known – and a source of intense domestic and global debate.

Sealing up homes and offices saves energy and is mostly a good thing, except when the air inside is full of CO2 with no good place to go, which is where the eSense Fresh Air Indicator from CO2Meter.com enters the picture. 

Algeria spent most of the 19th-century and much of the 20th-century under French colonial rule. Since escaping from under France's thumb in 1962, it has struggled with instability: a coup, rebellion, civil war and Islamic militant violence.

Research from the University of California, Berkeley shows that diesel bus services running during off-peak hours have higher emission rates than commercial airline flights.

 

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