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Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick	Trees Confound Global Warming The potential canceling-out effects of trees' low reflectivity for carbon sequestration raise questions as to whether tree planters should get carbon credits in North America, as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol.
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher	Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Peter Fairley	Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected
Scientific American August 2008 Keren Blankfeld Schultz	Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped.
Geotimes September 2003 Greg Peterson	Weathering climate change Policy-makers looking to curb future increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, could turn to a simple plan: Plant trees.
Popular Mechanics March 28, 2008 Joanna Borns	Spongelike Air-Capture Gadget Scrubs Away Carbon Emissions Researchers have invented a phone-booth-size device that can take back the carbon dioxide emissions that have already reached the atmosphere.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Ben Elgin	A Big Loophole in Cap and Trade How companies may be rewarded under the cap-and-trade system for green projects they already had in the works.
PC Magazine March 6, 2007 Dan Costa	Buy A Dell PC, Plant A Tree Today, you can send any Dell PC back to the company for recycling without paying a penny. If you buy a new Dell, the company actually sends someone to pick up your old PC.
Wired May 19, 2008 Alex Steffen	Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on Climate Change To have any hope of staving off collapse, we need to move forward with measures that address many interrelated problems and not just focus on carbon.
Chemistry World October 21, 2015 Mark Peplow	The carbon capture challenge Attention is shifting toward carbon capture and utilization, which aims to use CO 2 as a feedstock to make fuels, chemicals and other useful products.
Fast Company November 2000 Ian Wylie	'We Recycle Your Air.' Social entrepreneur Dan Morrell is targetting a massive and complex environmental problem: global warming. But his solution is deceptively simple: The way to save the planet is one tree at a time...
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Stuart Biggs	New Zealand Farmers Harvest Carbon Credits Growing trees can be more profitable than raising sheep.
Popular Mechanics July 2008 Jon Luoma	Greenhouse Graveyard: New Progress for Big Global Warming Fix Scientists admit it will be tough to capture a key greenhouse gas and bury carbon dioxide in the ground, in rock or underwater. What's even tougher for carbon sequestration: figuring out where to store it.
Wired February 25, 2008 Peter Schwartz	Humans Have Been Changing the Climate for Eons. That's Reason for Hope. Our epoch needs a new name. Scientists like Anthropocene to represent the era when people started messing up nature.
Wired May 19, 2008 Spencer Reiss	Carbon Credits Were a Great Idea, But the Benefits Are Illusory Carbon offsets -- and emissions-trading schemes, their industrial-scale siblings -- are the environmental version of subprime mortgages.
Chemistry World December 6, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Atmospheric carbon capture costs underestimated Capturing carbon dioxide from the air to mitigate climate change is likely to be too expensive to be practical, a new study suggests.
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Samuel K. Moore	The Water Cost of Carbon Capture Coal power's carbon savior could double its water woes
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Plant Methane Surprises Climate Scientists Atmospheric scientists have long blamed cattle and microbes for the production of significant amounts of methane on Earth. But the discovery of a new large source of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, is putting trees on the hot seat.
Chemistry World February 7, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Biofuel Carbon Debt May Take Centuries to Repay Most biofuels may increase greenhouse gas emissions because clearing grassland or forest to plant them releases carbon dioxide.
Chemistry World December 7, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Keep on the Grass US researchers have found it is possible to grow crops for fuel in a way that results in a net reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Chemistry World September 15, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Oxyfuel carbon capture trial launched The world's first coal-fired power station to capture and store its own carbon dioxide emissions was launched on 9 September by Swedish power company Vattenfall in the north-eastern German city of Spremberg.
Chemistry World February 8, 2010 Rebecca Renner	Coming clean on emissions outsourcing Industrialized countries 'outsource' a large proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with manufacturing the items they consume, according to a new study that, for the first time, details this outsourcing on a global basis.
Chemistry World November 19, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Watching carbon dioxide's globetrotting New high-resolution simulations depicting how local geography affects the transport of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere have been created by NASA.
CFO January 1, 2008 John Goff	Carbon Trading The carbon offset market is set to take off. But at this point, the future worth of a carbon commodity is tough to call. Could U.S. businesses end up buying a lot of hot air?
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Paul McFedries	Changing Climate, Changing Language That humans are having a negative effect on the world's climate is almost universally regarded as a fact in scientific circles, but global warming stubbornly remains in the realm of fantasy in some political and business circles.
Geotimes May 2005 Sara Pratt	Soot From Indian Cooking A new study says that residential cooking -- with stoves that burn wood, crop waste and dried animal manure -- is actually the largest source of soot emissions in India. Understanding this pollution source could have an important role in bettering both air quality and climate models.
Popular Mechanics January 26, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Scientists Use Massive Crane to Study Troubled Forests From Above In a study released in last week's Science researchers surveying forests of the American West found that trees are dying at an ever-increasing rate.
Popular Mechanics December 12, 2008 Melinda Wenner	U.N. Puts Greenhouse-Free Clean Coal on the Back Burner U.N. plans to sign a new international climate treaty next year, and in negotiating recommendations delegates found common ground in many areas.
Chemistry World October 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Air, Can we Have Our Carbon Back? Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is outlandishly expensive. But a US scientist who has just worked out how to improve its efficiency predicts it will be necessary before the end of the century.
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab	Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Waste CO 2-derived plastic hits tonne scale Waste carbon dioxide has been incorporated into a polymer at bulk scale. The resin can be used as a feedstock in existing polyurethane products, providing a sustainable way to divert carbon emissions away from the atmosphere.
Chemistry World April 4, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Dutch Power Ahead with Carbon Capture The first Dutch trial to capture carbon dioxide from a power plant's waste gas emissions has been launched in Rotterdam, Europe's largest port.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sandra Upson	Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water.
Investment Advisor August 2008 Robert F. Keane	Who Knows? Doing the right thing environmentally is harder than it sounds
Chemistry World March 18, 2011 Yuandi Li	Carbon capture with sawdust Plants may help to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere when dead as well as alive, say scientists from Spain.
Fast Company November 1, 2007 David Roberts	Are Carbon Offsets a Cop-Out? Fighting climate change may have become a crusade -- but it's no sin to do the easiest thing first. Carbon dioxide is fungible, like money -- not personal, like sin.
Scientific American June 2009 Madhusree Mukerjee	Is a Popular Carbon-Offset Method Just a Lot of Hot Air? A popular carbon-offset scheme may do little to cut emissions.
PC Magazine March 17, 2008 Isabelle Groc	Giving Back to the Friendly Skies Carbon offsets can be a good way to reduce your traveling carbon footprint, but be wary of green scams.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Kathleen Kerwin	CO2: The Debate Heats Up Is carbon dioxide an air pollutant? That will be the key issue in any legal challenge by auto makers to California's proposed rules to reduce carbon dioxide in auto exhaust.
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Faith-Based Carbon Credit Systems Market-based approaches to help stem carbon releases, and in turn climate change, could prove difficult to marshal and enforce. Carbon credits and trade incentives are a small piece in a larger issue.
Chemistry World May 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Greenhouse gas milestone exceeded Global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels surpassed 400ppm in March for the first time on record, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Yan Yan	China mulls tax on carbon emissions Following more encouraging sounds from the Chinese government at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, on reducing carbon emissions a proposal to levy a carbon tax is moving up the policy agenda.
Chemistry World February 2011	Rehabilitating captured CO2 Rather than burying it underground, companies are developing processes that use carbon dioxide emissions as chemical starting materials. Andy Extance investigates
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009 John Carey	Greenhouse Gases: Who's Cheating? The amounts of carbon in the atmosphere are out of whack with predictions and reported output.
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Food Processing June 2009	MRO Q&A: What Makes Up a Food Processing Plant's Carbon Footprint? How can steam used in facilities help reduce the carbon footprint?
Popular Mechanics February 23, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Can NASA's New Climate Detective Find the Missing CO2? Early Tuesday morning, a Taurus XL rocket will ferry a CO2 sniffing satellite, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, into space, where it will try to unlock secrets of Earth's carbon cycle.
Wired May 19, 2008 Spencer Reiss	Face It. Nukes Are the Most Climate-Friendly Industrial-Scale Form of Energy Embracing the atom is key to winning the war on warming.
Geotimes February 2005 Megan Sever	Bugging Out with Warmer Weather If Earth continues to warm, especially in northern latitudes, insect outbreaks are more likely to occur, and potentially harm forests and affect the planet's carbon cycle.