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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.
Chemistry World February 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Calls for UK Investment in Carbon Capture The UK government must invest immediately in carbon capture and storage technologies to meet carbon emissions targets, a parliamentary committee has urged.
Chemistry World September 13, 2011 Hayley Birch	Carbon capture schemes pose low risk to people Any health risk associated with leaks from carbon capture and storage sites will be minor, according to a new study.
Chemistry World April 20, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Putting the cement industry in the calcium loop Scientists in the UK have shown that two major industrial processes that generate large amounts of carbon dioxide could usefully be linked together to deliver significant savings in energy and CO 2 emissions.
Chemistry World October 2007 Stuart Haszeldine	How to Bury the Problem Carbon capture and storage could allow us to burn fossil fuels without climate consequences - but only with more investment in R&D.
Chemistry World September 2, 2011 Tegan Thomas	Offsetting the Cost of a Green Solvent Scientists have conducted a study to show how waste carbon dioxide can become an exploitable resource.
Chemistry World October 24, 2011 Patrick Walter	UK Government Pulls the Plug on CCS Plant Plans for the UK's first commercial scale carbon capture and storage power plant have been shelved.
Chemistry World February 24, 2015 Phillip Broadwith	Catalytic carbon dioxide convertors The world's demand for energy, and the resultant carbon dioxide emissions, are drastically changing our climate. UK startup Econic Technologies is developing catalysts that could take some of that CO 2 and lock it up in high-performance polymer materials.
Chemistry World November 12, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Carbonic acid captured Scientists from Germany and Israel have caught a fleeting glimpse of carbonic acid, the simple yet elusive molecule that plays a key role in nature.
Chemistry World October 9, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	New catalyst converts waste CO2 to useful molecules Super-efficient catalysts for conversion of waste carbon dioxide from power stations into useful cyclic carbonate molecules could help reduce emissions and the petrochemical industry's dependence on fossil fuels, say UK chemists.
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.
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.
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Chemistry World July 18, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Membranes Weed Out Carbon Dioxide Chemical membranes that can capture the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuels have been developed by scientists, who say that they are substantially more efficient than conventional membranes.
Chemistry World August 8, 2008	Funding Carbon Capture As the UK inches towards a 2014 large-scale demonstration of carbon capture and storage, scientists and MPs are urging for more incentives to get the costly technology commercial by 2020.
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Samuel K. Moore	The Water Cost of Carbon Capture Coal power's carbon savior could double its water woes
Chemistry World April 28, 2010 Mike Brown	Producing hydrogen from sea water A new catalyst that generates hydrogen from sea water has been developed by scientists in the US.
Chemistry World November 7, 2008 Matt Wilkinson	Rocks to soak up carbon dioxide Oman's peridotite alone could lock away over a billion tons of CO 2 a year - a significant slice of the 30 billion tons of CO 2 emitted annually worldwide by human activity.
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.
Chemistry World April 4, 2006 Arthur Rogers	EU-Wide Carbon Capture Project A four-year carbon sequestration project backed by 30 European universities and energy companies will test the viability of CO 2 capture as a means of curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
Chemistry World December 1, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Magnesium Cage Shows Promise for Carbon Capture US chemists have shown that a hugely porous chemical cage containing large numbers of exposed magnesium centers can efficiently and selectively capture carbon dioxide from a mixture of gases and subsequently release it using little energy.
Chemistry World June 18, 2013 Rowan Frame	Hydrogen generation using sunlight Scientists from Spain have found a catalyst that can use sunlight to power an important industrial reaction for the production of hydrogen at ambient temperatures.
Chemistry World August 7, 2006 Ned Stafford	Sea Sediment Storage Proposed for Carbon Dioxide It may be possible to fight global warming by burying carbon dioxide in reservoirs hundreds of meters below the ocean floor.
Chemistry World August 2, 2013 Jennifer Newton	If everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry Cafer Yavuz is a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon. His groups design and make new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to offer sustainable solutions for energy and environmental issues.
Chemistry World October 5, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Chemicals with an Amine Chemists in France have devised a new way to turn carbon dioxide into a useful chemical building block.
Chemistry World June 29, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Stripping down the carbon storage problem Chemists looking at solid amine materials to capture carbon dioxide from industrial flue gases need to pay more attention to how they will be regenerated in a practical setting, say US researchers.
Chemistry World April 24, 2009 Nina Notman	UK carbon capture and storage gets government boost The UK will lead the way in the development and use of carbon capture and storage technology for coal-fired power stations, the country's minister for energy and climate change has declared.
Chemistry World April 21, 2011 Mary Badcock	CO2 aids oxidation reactions Carbon dioxide enhances the catalytic oxidation of cyclic alkenes, leading to higher conversions at low pressures, say researchers from South Korea.
Chemistry World January 16, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Azo-cops nab CO 2 but let N 2 go free Scientists have developed a new class of porous polymer that can efficiently trap carbon dioxide while actively rejecting nitrogen.
Chemistry World October 9, 2014 Rebecca Trager	World's first carbon capture coal plant opens The world's first first large-scale power station equipped with carbon capture and storage technology officially opened in Canada and it's expected to trap around 1 million tons of carbon dioxide every year.
Popular Mechanics November 17, 2008 Jon Luoma	Scientists Recommend Permanent Method For Carbon Sequestration: Turn CO2 into Rock A breaking study indicates that 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year could be locked up in rock formations that cover half of Oman and the same principle could be transferred to rock formations in shallow seas.
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Tim Wogan	Greener route to esters dodges toxic reactant The industrially important synthesis of esters could be set to become greener and safer as German chemists have found a way to use carbon dioxide in place of carbon monoxide for alkoxycarbonylation.
Geotimes December 2004 Jay Chapman	Carbon Dioxide Alchemy Some scientists are experimenting with a new form of alchemy, not looking to create a substance, but rather remove one: carbon dioxide. If their process works, it could reduce the effects of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Chemistry World October 16, 2015 James Urquhart	Microporous copper silicate sucks up carbon dioxide A carbon capturing microporous copper silicate material has been created that could offer a cheaper and simpler way of capturing carbon dioxide from the gas flues of fossil fuel power plants.
Chemistry World April 4, 2011 Jon Cartwright	New cream blocks nickel allergy The treatment uses nanoparticles to trap nickel on the skin of mice before it is absorbed- but there is some doubt whether it will work equally well with humans.
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
Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt	Acidic Waters Threaten Sea Life High acidity in the world's oceans may be threatening coral populations, such as those in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Chemistry World April 1, 2009 Hayley Birch	Take carbon dioxide, dissolve slowly in water Carbon dioxide can be safely stored for millennia in deep, underground reservoirs, according to a new study by a team of international researchers.
Chemistry World November 23, 2012 Nuala Moran	Can the UK fund CCS? After several false dawns, two recent announcements suggest commercial-scale carbon capture and storage could finally be getting the go-ahead in the UK.
Chemistry World March 19, 2008 Kira Welter	'Designer' Catalyst Fights Fuel Cell Poisoning US scientists have designed a contaminant commonly found in hydrogen used to run fuel cells from first principles nanoparticles that efficiently oxidize carbon monoxide (CO)
Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Anna Lewcock	Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research
Chemistry World April 7, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Isolation of cyanoformate suggests new carbon capture approaches The formation of the cyanoformate ion helps to explain why plants' ethylene producing enzymes aren't poisoned by cyanide
Chemistry World January 3, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Recycling Carbon Dioxide Into Petrol A new reactor could make chemically recycling carbon dioxide back into petrol a worthwhile endeavour.
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.
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.
Chemistry World September 11, 2008 Hepeng Jia	China forging ahead with carbon capture China's first carbon capture trial is making money by selling its carbon dioxide to beverage companies to add fizz to their drinks, according to China Huaneng, the state owned energy firm that is running the trial.
Chemistry World December 10, 2010 Carl Saxton	Breaking news for the CO bond UK scientists have pinpointed the moment that the CO bond, the strongest bond of any diatomic molecule, breaks when oxidised by a gold catalyst.
Chemistry World September 28, 2015 Emma Stoye	Drax pulls out of carbon capture power station plans The owner of the UK's largest power station, Drax, has pulled out of plans to build a carbon capture and storage power plant because of changes in government policy.