News tagged with carbon storage
Carbon nanoballs as data storage units
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Small, smaller, "nano" data storage! Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes - carbon “cages” with embedded metallic compounds - as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers at ...
State may have brief window to slow loss of working forests to development
Mar 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's slumping economy and housing market may reduce, temporarily, the insistent economic forces on Washington's private forestland owners to give up the cycle of harvesting and replanting ...
Biofuels could hasten climate change
Apr 14, 2009 |
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A new study finds that it will take more than 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost when biofuel plantations are established on forestlands. If the original ...
Scientists point to forests for carbon storage solutions
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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Scientists who have determined how much carbon is stored annually in upper Midwest forests hope their findings will be used to accelerate global discussion about the strategy of managing forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions.
Pacific Northwest forests could store more carbon, help address greenhouse issues
Jul 02, 2009 |
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The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose ...
Researchers find fertile pastures
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland researchers are breaking new ground in rainforest regeneration.
