Tag Archives: chemistry

Troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide

2012-5-31 – 11:31 am

Readings are coming in at 400 and higher all over the Arctic. They’ve been recorded in Alaska, Greenland, Norway, Iceland and even Mongolia.

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Ocean Acidifying So Fast It Threatens Humanity’s Ability to Feed Itself

2012-3-3 – 3:02 pm

The horrific warning of the end of life on the planet as we know it comes from paleoceanographers, who examine cores of sediment from some 56 million years ago.

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Renewable portfolio standards insufficient to meet 2030 GHG emission targets

2012-2-14 – 12:59 pm

“With climate change, today’s ’100-year floods’ may happen every three to 20 years.”

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Environmental World Review 2011

2011-12-24 – 1:41 pm

Greenie-weenie talk simply describes it as the start of the Anthropocene.

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The Evil Agri-Oil Axis

2011-5-26 – 5:43 pm

Since the 1960s increased use of nitrogen fertilizers has doubled the number of lifeless pockets every decade.

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Inside-out Buckyballs, Batman?

2011-5-13 – 10:30 am

Negative Curvature Carbon

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PANI-M-C

2011-4-21 – 7:16 pm

Potentials within ~60 millivolts of that delivered by state-of-the-art carbon-supported platinum, and remarkable performance stability for non–precious metal catalysts, sounds like a winner

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Yi Cui, More Anode Development

2011-2-20 – 7:53 am

Researchers find a low cost way to improve the safety of anodes in lithium batteries.

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Flexible Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells

2011-1-2 – 12:12 pm

Atwater envisions roll-to-roll production of this photo voltaic laminate.

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Mommy, what does “toxic” mean?

2010-12-14 – 4:34 pm

Already under stress from pollution and warming, the ocean ecosystem now faces a severe threat due to the rise in ocean acidity. The ocean no longer can absorb the excess carbon dioxide we have dumped and continue to dump into the atmosphere.

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