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Thieves took cash and jewellery in a break-in at Kinross-shire shop Loch Leven's Larder in the early hours of Friday, January 19 2024.

A US firm uses limestone to soak up carbon dioxide from the air and mineralise it

Policy red tape is ‘strangling growth and recovery’ in Scotland’s agritourism sector, undermining the government’s own ‘Growth Strategy’…

AsiaOne has launched EarthOne, a new section dedicated to environmental issues — because we love the planet and we believe science. Find articles like this there. SAN JOSE — A California startup using rocks to soak up carbon dioxide from the air has teamed up with a Canadian company to mineralise the gas in concrete, a technological tie-up that is...

Sharing a landmark moment, Canadian carbon dioxide (CO2) removal company CarbonCure today (16th Dec) confirmed that its 500th carbon mineralisation system has been sold to one of its visionary concrete producer partners.

Article content Cement literally serves as a building block for our ever-growing world, but it’s taking a steep toll on the environment. Cement — and its end product concrete — accounts for 7 per cent of global carbon emissions, with emissions from the industry expected to rise by 4 per cent globally by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency. Indeed, Bill Gates, the tech tycoon that’s now focused on resolving environmental issues, calls concrete among the “hardest” produ...

Earlier this week, ExxonMobil, a company among the largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions and a longtime leader in the corporate fight against climate change regulations, called for a massive $100 billion project (backed in part by the government) to sequester hundreds of millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide in geologic formations off the Gulf […]

Article content A Canadian company that has developed a process to reduce emissions from concrete production is one of the two grand-prize winners of the $20-million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. Halifax-based company CarbonCure — whose breakthrough technology can be used to retrofit existing concrete plants so they consume carbon dioxide as part of their normal production process — will take home one of two $7.5-million grand prize purses. (In Round 2, a $2.5-million prize purse was shared equa...