Stories with the tag: Emissions
Capturing and storing carbon dioxide, or CO2, away from the atmosphere as a way of reducing the impacts of climate change is an emerging field of scientific study, and it also could be a fantastic career opportunity. On July 31, nationally-renowned CO2 ca Release Date: 6/26/2012
The weather was a helpful accomplice in getting Beijing's air ready for Olympic athletes in the summer of 2008. Release Date: 12/27/2011
Battelle has been awarded $1.99 million from the Department of Energy to study how cost effectively a new carbon dioxide capture process can work to pull green house gases out of power plant emissions. Release Date: 8/25/2011
The cheapest way to keep atmospheric carbon dioxide on the low end of possible futures is to use every available means to reduce emissions. Release Date: 8/5/2011
New research by PNNL scientists describes how soot covering snow atop the massive Tibetan Plateau is and causing snow to melt earlier. As a result, India and China are experiencing wetter winters, drier summers and stronger monsoons. Release Date: 3/3/2011
After declining for a decade, worldwide sulfur dioxide emissions rose again in 2000 due largely to international shipping and a growing Chinese economy. A new analysis of sulfur emissions since the beginning of the Industrial Age will help researchers predict future changes in climate and determine present day effects on the atmosphere, health and the environment. Release Date: 2/14/2011
PNNL scientists will present their research at the 2010 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Dec. 13-17 in San Francisco. Release Date: 12/13/2010
Improved crop productivity alone can't save tropical forests from agricultural encroachment. Replacing forests with cropland emits carbon dioxide, and new research shows policies that limit greenhouse gas emissions need to treat those emissions the same as if they were coming from a gas engine or coal powerplant if agricultural advancements are to have a chance of stopping deforestation. Release Date: 10/4/2010
PNNL’s Geologic Sequestration Software Suite, or GS3, will help subsurface and computer scientists and engineers with the planning, deployment and monitoring of carbon storage projects over the lifespan of a project, which could span 100 years or more. Release Date: 9/16/2010
As much as 12 percent of the world’s human-caused greenhouse gas emissions could be sustainably offset by producing biochar, concludes a paper in Nature Communications co-written by PNNL’s Jim Amonette. Release Date: 8/10/2010
