carbon capture

After teasing it last month, Elon Musk has unveiled his $100 million XPrize competition with the lofty aim of removing carbon from the atmosphere to help stem climate change. The competition opens up today to teams...

Going Offline Carbon capture tech, which scrubs greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, is often heralded as a necessary component of the global fight against climate change. It’s an appealing pitch. If we just had...

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Crash Deployment If we want any chance of meeting the ambitious climate goals laid out by the 2015 Paris Agreement, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we’ll need to find a way to actually reverse past...

The CEO and founder of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, as you may know, is firmly against pollution and carbon emission in the environment. Tesla promotes and makes electric cars to reduce carbon emissions from gas-based...

The Earth911 Reader collects and comments on useful news about science, business, sustainability, and recycling to save you time and keep you informed. IN SUSTAINABILITY Biden’s Day One Delivers Climate Hope The end...

Elon Musk. ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk said Thursday he'll give $100 million as a prize for the "best carbon capture technology." Musk recently asked for tips on where to donate his wealth,...

Carbon Capture SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk lobbed an environmental grenade into the discourse Thursday evening, promising to pony up a substantial $100 million toward a prize for new carbon capture technology. “Am...

Natural Gas A team of scientists seems to have developed a cleaner way of generating fuel for gas-burning cars — using nothing but renewable energy. The new process takes carbon dioxide and water and then combines...

Enlarge (credit: Bernal Saborio) Techniques to take atmospheric CO2 and turn it into a fuel provide a climate-friendly alternative to exploiting fossil fuels—they may releases CO2 back into the air when burned, but...

Reverse Engineering A team of scientists from the University of Oxford has made an unusual development in the push for clean energy: Turning carbon dioxide back into jet fuel. The technology, Wired reports, could help...

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Spilt Milk One elusive white whale in the fight against climate change has been carbon capture: tech that could scrub carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, but hasn’t yet been developed at scale. The trick is finding...

Though the effects of climate change are becoming more apparent and threatening every year, the world’s most powerful nations are still not doing enough to combat the threat. We’re running out of time to change our...

On Thursday, a new study came out warning that even if we stopped emitting carbon dioxide, the world has reached the “point of no return” for climate change. The paper claims that’s because Arctic permafrost —...

They’re Forever Coming soon: carbon-negative diamonds made from nothing but atmospheric CO2 and rainwater. A British clean energy company called Ecotricity, founded by environmentalist Dale Vince, told The Guardian...