Carbon Dioxide
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A gas station on Red Planet? New Carbon dioxide reactor can make Martian fuel
Science | Sep 25, 2021, 11:12 PM ISTThe Martian atmosphere is composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide. Astronauts could save half the fuel they need for a return trip home by making what they need on the red planet once they arrive, said Jingjie Wu, Assistant Professor at UC College of Engineering and Applied Science.
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India must act now, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, build climate resilient infrastructure: Experts
Science | Aug 10, 2021, 07:05 PM ISTThe Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), approved by the 195 member countries, cautioned that every region on earth will witness the worst irreversible effects of climate change in the coming years, including sea-level rise and a surge in heat waves, rainfall and floods.
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Elon Musk announces USD 100 million prize for developing technology to capture carbon dioxide emissi
World | Jan 22, 2021, 12:09 PM ISTTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced to donate $100 million towards a prize for the best carbon capture technology.
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Atmospheric CO2 to pass iconic threshold in 2021: UK Met Office
World | Jan 10, 2021, 11:21 AM ISTCarbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere this year will reach levels 50 per cent higher than before the Industrial Revolution due to human-caused emissions, according to the annual forecast of the UK Met Office.
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World carbon dioxide emissions drop 7% in pandemic-hit 2020
World | Dec 11, 2020, 08:33 AM ISTA locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its carbon dioxide emissions this year by 7%, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures show.
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Soda springs: Carbon Dioxide with 200 times more concentration discovered in Philippines' ocean
Science | Jan 29, 2020, 08:23 AM ISTBubbling Carbon Dioxide in high concentration discovered by Texas University professor on the floor of a Philippines ocean in Verde Island Passage.
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Early Earth's atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide: Study
Science | Jan 28, 2020, 04:52 PM ISTPrevious work suggested the meteorites ran into oxygen, contradicting theories and evidence that the Earth's early atmosphere was virtually devoid of oxygen.
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Israeli scientists develop bacteria which eat carbon dioxide
Science | Nov 28, 2019, 10:15 AM ISTThe researchers mapped the genes that are essential to this process and added some of them to the bacteria genome in their lab.
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New technology removes CO2 from the air at any concentration level
Science | Oct 28, 2019, 04:01 PM ISTThe researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US said that while most methods of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of gas required higher concentrations -- such as those found in the flue emissions from fossil fuel-based power plants -- the new method could suck out the gas even when it was present in very low concentrations.
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Revealed! How carbon leak may have led to human civilisation
Aug 01, 2018, 11:27 AM ISTAn increase in the activity of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Southern Ocean could explain the mysterious growth of human civilisation 11,000 years ago
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Can carbon dioxide help in reducing belly fat?
Health | Jun 09, 2018, 05:11 PM ISTIt is believed that injection of carbon dioxide causes changes in the microcirculation, and damages fat cells.
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Breakthrough! New artificial leaf will never let the world run out of fuel
World | Jul 29, 2016, 09:15 PM ISTLaced with every possibility to be a game-changer, “artificial leaves” have been developed by scientists that can resolve the long-pending problem of lower availability of fuel. These “artificial leaves”, packed with solar cel
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Carbon dioxide emissions problem far smaller than suspected: Volkswagen
Dec 09, 2015, 08:14 PM ISTBerlin: Volkswagen today said that a problem with carbon dioxide emissions is far smaller than initially suspected, with further checks finding “slight discrepancies” in only a few models and no evidence of illegal changes to
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India is now world's fastest-growing major polluter
India | Jun 29, 2015, 02:27 PM ISTFor the first time ever, the year 2014 saw India's carbon dioxide emissions growth accounting for the largest share of global emissions growth, according to a new global report. India's CO2 emissions from energy use
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CO2 emissions set to reach record high in 2014
World | Sep 22, 2014, 11:25 AM ISTLondon: Ahead of the New York Climate Summit, researchers have revealed that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the main contributor to global warming, is set to rise again in 2014 - reaching a record high of