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26/4/2013
Climate scientists may have to rethink some of their old assumptions about carbon. US and European researchers have just established that black carbon, soot and
biochar -- the burnt remains from countless forest fires -- doesn't stay in the soil ...
22/3/2013
As the realities of
global climate change become ever more alarming, advocates of technological approaches to "geoengineer" the planet's climate are gaining a following.
But the technologies that are promoted -- from spraying sulphate ...
18/9/2012
To hear some of its proponents talk, the substance known as
biochar -- a form of charcoal made from logging and agricultural waste -- has properties that verge on the magical. It not only cuts down dramatically on the carbon emissions that cause ...
10/3/2012
“About 74,000 years ago,” Lynas began, “a volcanic event nearly wiped out humanity. We were down to just a thousand or so embattled breeding pairs. We’ve made a bit of a comeback since then. We’re over seven billion strong. In half a million ...
5/10/2011
Soils store three times as much carbon as plants and the atmosphere. Soil organic matter such as humus plays a key role in the
global carbon cycle as it stores huge amounts of carbon and thus counters
global warming. Consequently, the Kyoto ...
11/8/2011
of Thin Air: The Quest to Capture Carbon Dioxide
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9/7/2011
Techno-fix ideas include artificial trees and firing silver iodide into clouds to produce rain.The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky ...
19/6/2011
If you haven`t yet heard, hell froze over last week. Oddly, this is likely to be bad news for a
warming planet.
On Monday, more than 125 environmental groups sent a scathing letter to Rajendra Pachauri, the Nobel prize-winning head of ...
2/6/2011
A group of Scottish scientists are carrying out ground-breaking research which could help solve
global warming.
The researchers at the University of Edinburgh think that using a specially created form of charcoal could increase food ...
18/2/2011
IT'S maddening. We have brilliant renewable energy resources, brilliant innovators and a vast pool of superannuation savings looking for opportunities beyond our overvalued, over-analysed, ticket-clipped top 50 listed companies.
We also ...
11/2/2011
It seems modest, as power plants go -- a 29-megawatt facility, situated just north of the Vermont-Massachusetts line, that will burn woody biomass to generate enough power for 25,000 to 30,000 homes. But like many proposed plants in the recently ...
17/1/2011
Sadly, as the threat of climate change worsens, U.S. lawmakers move further away from practical solutions.
Last week, NASA reported that 2010 was the second hottest year on record, capping the warmest decade in modern times. Climate ...
2/1/2011
THIS is a turbulent time in which a confluence of events has created concern for the very survival of the planet in terms of human habitation as well as other life forms.
This concern may or may not be well-founded and there are deniers ...
28/12/2010
Gore to address Aspen Forests at Risk event
Symposium to focus on climate change and the future of western forests
Former Vice President and Nobel laureate Al Gore will join forest scientists and policy makers at a February ...
9/12/2010
It has an appealing symmetry to it: If we got ourselves into this climate mess by digging up and burning coal, maybe we can fix it by creating some more coal and putting it back into the ground.
That very idea, involving the ...
7/12/2010
The main cause of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels, so why are billions of dollars being invested to find and produce more oil, coal and natural gas?
That is the question posed by Canadian indigenous representatives at the ...
21/11/2010
Not long ago, it seemed that big money and boundless optimism were all that were needed to solve some of the biggest environmental problems facing the planet.
An initiative from Richard Branson, the shaggy-haired billionaire owner of ...
17/11/2010
Good news for everyone who loves a barbecue: soon you could be helping save the world as you flip your burgers.
A new generation of small, barbecue-style stoves could soon be making it possible to sequester carbon while you cook -- with ...
17/11/2010
Good news for everyone who loves a barbecue: soon you could be helping save the world as you flip your burgers.
A new generation of small, barbecue-style stoves could soon be making it possible to sequester carbon while you cook -- with ...
8/10/2010
It's black, it's gritty, it's essential for barbecues -- and it just might save the world from
global warming.
Biochar, a kind of charcoal that is rich in carbon, traps CO2 from the atmosphere and can store it in soils for hundreds to ...
1/10/2010
What unites Malcolm Turnbull, Tim Flannery and James Lovelock? Enthusiasm for
biochar: one of the most intriguing solutions to
global warming and a possible boon for investors.Biochar, the charcoal-like residue when biomass (such as ...
30/9/2010
Win-win solutions can be hard to come by. But if Cornell University soil scientist Johannes Lehmann is right, there may be a way to lower our emission of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, save millions of people's lives, and significantly boost the ...
24/8/2010
"Rising sea levels caused by
global warming are likely to affect around 150 million people living in low-lying coastal areas, including some of the world's largest cities," explained Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva of the National Oceanography ...
16/8/2010
Biochar--the agricultural application of charcoal produced from burning biomass--may be one of this century's most important social and environmental revolutions. This seemingly humble practice--a technology that goes back thousands of years--has ...
12/8/2010
The idea of burying charcoal produced from microwaved wood to tackle
global warming is still beset with scientific uncertainties, says the UK government's first report on "biochar".
The warning comes as a separate US study published this ...