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  A gas station on Red Planet? New Carbon dioxide reactor can make Martian fuel

  Science | September 25, 2021 23:12 IST

  The 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 | August 10, 2021 19:05 IST

  The 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 | January 22, 2021 12:09 IST

  Tesla 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 | January 10, 2021 11:21 IST

  Carbon 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 | December 11, 2020 8:33 IST

  A 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 | January 29, 2020 8:23 IST

  Bubbling 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 | January 28, 2020 16:52 IST

  Previous 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 | November 28, 2019 10:15 IST

  The 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 | October 28, 2019 16:01 IST

  The 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

  August 01, 2018 11:27 IST

  An 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 | June 09, 2018 17:11 IST

  It 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 | July 29, 2016 21:15 IST

  Laced 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

  December 09, 2015 20:14 IST

  Berlin: 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 | June 29, 2015 14:27 IST

  For 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 | September 22, 2014 11:25 IST

  London: 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