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Carbon in our bodies likely left galaxy and came back on cosmic ‘conveyer belt’

An image of a dense, star-rich portion of our galaxy, the Milky Way, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except hydrogen and helium—including carbon, oxygen and iron—only exist because they were forged […]

World News

Model dies in suspected carbon monoxide leak

Actress and model Dayle Haddon has died and another person has been hospitalised due to a carbon monoxide leak at a home in Pennsylvania, authorities have said. Haddon modelled for brands including Estée Lauder and L’Oreal, and appeared on the front of magazines including Sports Illustrated and Vogue Paris in the 1970s. Police said they […]

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Carbon offsets can bring energy efficiency to low-income Americans—Nashville data is promising

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Under pressure from customers and investorsmany U.S. companies have pledged to voluntarily reduce their impact on the climate. But that doesn’t always mean they’re cutting their own greenhouse gas emissions. A large number of companies are instead paying others to reduce carbon emissions on their behalf through projects that generate carbon […]

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‘Living’ ceramics utilize bacteria for gas sensing and carbon capture

Living porous ceramic for carbon capture and gas sensing. Credit: Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202412555 A team of materials scientists and chemists at ETH Zürich has developed a way to make “living” ceramics that can detect small amounts of formaldehyde and capture carbon dioxide from the air. In their project, reported in the journal Advanced […]

Business & Finance

5 Carbon Dioxide Removal Developments That Defined 2024

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND – MAY 24: In this aerial view, the Mammoth carbon removal plant, considered the … [+] largest direct-air capture plant in the world is seen on May 24, 2024 in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Swiss start-up Climeworks and Icelandic partner Carbfix collaborated on the Mammoth project, utilizing Climeworks’ Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to […]