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Chemistry World February 28, 2014 Emma Stoye	Scientists blend standard air The first ever fully synthetic standard air, which can be used as a reference to calibrate atmospheric monitoring equipment, has been produced by researchers in the UK.
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009	The Greenhouse Gas Gap Companies and countries report their emissions but the disclosed amounts often don't add up to what's actually in the air.
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.
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale.
Chemistry World July 25, 2007 Peter Mitchell	Newly Identified Side to Global Warming An atmospheric mechanism has emerged that could lift global temperatures by even higher than the 2-5 C rise predicted by the end of the century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2006 Anders Bylund	Word of the Day: Sequestration GE and BP work together to stem global warming. These global giants certainly have the scale and resources to make it happen.
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.
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 December 2006 Megan Sever	Methane Budget to Become Off-Balance Methane packs a big punch in the atmosphere. A team of climate scientists now says that it has better determined the primary controls over the methane budget over the past two decades, and the team offers a warning for the future: methane emissions will likely rise.
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.
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.
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 January 9, 2014 Emma Stoye	Iconic carbon dioxide program imperiled by funding shortfall The future of the iconic Keeling Curve, a record of atmospheric carbon dioxide that has been kept for over five decades, is in doubt.
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 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 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.
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 February 2010	Solar surge The sun is the only non-polluting energy source available to humankind on a huge scale and there is an urgent need to drive forward the science to exploit this fact and put into place clever technological solutions for reducing CO 2 emissions.
Reason October 2004 Adrian Moore	Hydrogen Hot Air In most cases fueling cars with hydrogen would make little net difference in emissions of greenhouse gases, and in some cases would even increase them.
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.
Chemistry World May 27, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Flue gas reclaimed as polymer feedstock The first systematic environmental assessment of an industrial plant that produces polyols from carbon dioxide has revealed that they significantly reduce both carbon dioxide emissions and the demand on fossil fuel reserves.
Wired September 24, 2007 Patrick Di Justo	The Prescription: Switching to Renewables A committed desire to switch to renewables is the only thing we need to free us from our carbon chains.
Geotimes June 2006 Michael Glantz	Global Warming: Whose Problem is it Anyway? Global warming is not a hoax. It actually happens naturally. Industrialization processes in rich countries and now in developing ones are abetting the naturally occurring greenhouse effect.
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.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jill Jusko	CO 2 Regulation On The Horizon? It's not a matter of if mandatory regulation of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions occur, it's a matter of when. At least that's what many companies believe, experts say.
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 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.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jill Jusko	Manufacturers Achieve Emissions Goals Here is a short list of the many goals and achievements reached by manufacturers in their voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide is a primary component of greenhouse gases.
Chemistry World November 24, 2011 Hepeng Jia	China's emissions still surging China's carbon dioxide emissions have kept growing quickly, shadowing worldwide efforts to fight global warming.
Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Cutting the Cost of Climate Change Scientists have welcomed a UN climate change report released on Friday that sets out a range of affordable options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
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 October 2007 Bernard Bulkin	Can Chemistry Save the Planet? If we are to scale back our greenhouse gas emissions without society juddering to a halt, 21st century transport will need 21st century fuels. And of all the sciences, it is chemistry that is best placed to deliver them.
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.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon Leaching Out of Siberian Peat New research is showing that as temperatures rise across the Arctic, carbon once locked up in permafrost soils may begin escaping into the area's waterways.
CIO September 1, 2001 Simone Kaplan	Leave a Smaller Footprint To publicize the importance of reducing emissions of ozone-depleting gases, the World Resources Institute has launched www.safeclimate.net, a website devoted to helping individuals and organizations calculate and reduce their output of carbon dioxide...
Chemistry World September 3, 2014 Andy Extance	Environmental priorities stymie hunt for stubborn ozone depleter The Earth's gradually healing ozone layer -- an iconic success in humanity's attempts to fix the environmental damage it causes -- is being set back by unanticipated lingering pollutants.
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?
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 February 5, 2010 Leila Sattary	Emission reduction pledges pour in Dozens of countries, including the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters, have met a 31 January deadline and submitted emission reduction targets to the United Nations in line with the Copenhagen Accord signed during the climate summit in December.
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.
Science News May 9, 2009	Science Past From The Issue Of May 9, 1959 Scientists predict 25% increase in carbon dioxide by the year 2000.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Geotimes March 2003 S. Julio Friedmann	Storing Carbon in Earth Carbon sequestration is capturing carbon dioxide, either from the atmosphere or emission streams, and storing it in reservoirs, such as plants or soils. Carbon dioxide could be converted to solid chemicals or injected into the deep ocean. Though there are risks, the potential pay-off is enormous.
Chemistry World July 23, 2008 Lewis Brindley	'Acid soot' worsens smog Researchers in the US say soot particles in the atmosphere combine with other pollutants to pick up an acid coating that may worsen their influence on local smog and global warming.
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 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.