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The Biden administration intends to focus more on capturing the carbon emissions of natural gas plants and industrial manufacturing facilities than from coal-fired power, a top Energy Department official said.
It s a shift for the federal government s carbon capture program, which, until recently, has spent significant funds and resources on attaching carbon capture to power plants, especially coal. The Trump administration saw the technology as a lifeline for coal-fired power, whereas the Biden administration views it as essential to decarbonize harder-to-abate sectors of the economy, such as steel, chemical, and cement production.
Carbon capture, which removes carbon from the smokestacks of power plants or industrial facilities to be stored underground, hasn t been widely commercialized yet because it is still costly. However, many climate models and scientific reports, including the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say carbon capture
Climate change is expanding Antarctica s sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience.
The paradoxical phenomenon is thought to be caused by relatively cold plumes of fresh water derived from melting beneath the Antarctic ice shelves.
This melt water has a relatively low density, so it accumulates in the top layer of the ocean.
The cool surface waters then re-freeze more easily during Autumn and Winter.
This explains the observed peak in sea ice during these seasons, a team from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in De Bilt says in its
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Climate scientists have been intrigued by observations that Antarctic sea ice shows a small but statistically significant expansion of about 1.9% per decade since 1985, while sea ice in the Arctic
Listen here! ISU s Sustainability Committee described by: Dr. Bill Gutowski, Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Science, Chair of the University Sustainability Committee and a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) and student members of the University Sustainability Committee Jennifer Seth, undergraduate student in Environmental Science and Aline Milach Teixeira, undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering.
Listen Here! A discussion of carbon sequestration by Dr. Robert Brown, Director of the ISU Bioeconomy Institute and Professor of Engineering - Mechanical, Chemical and Biological and Agricultural and Biosystems.
Listen Here! Plans for recycling plexiglass used as barriers during the pandemic: Ayodeji Oluwalana, ISU Recycling Coordinator and Special Events Coordinator, Daniel Neubauer, Assistant Teaching Professor in Industrial Design, Micah Lantz, undergraduate student in In
Listen here! ISU s Sustainability Committee described by: Dr. Bill Gutowski, Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Science, Chair of the University Sustainability Committee and a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) and student members of the University Sustainability Committee Jennifer Seth, undergraduate student in Environmental Science and Aline Milach Teixeira, undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering.
Listen Here! A discussion of carbon sequestration by Dr. Robert Brown, Director of the ISU Bioeconomy Institute and Professor of Engineering - Mechanical, Chemical and Biological and Agricultural and Biosystems.
Listen Here! Plans for recycling plexiglass used as barriers during the pandemic: Ayodeji Oluwalana, ISU Recycling Coordinator and Special Events Coordinator, Daniel Neubauer, Assistant Teaching Professor in Industrial Design, Micah Lantz, undergraduate student in In
20 April 2021 11:40 GMT Updated 20 April 2021 12:47 GMT
OPINION: Key parts of the oil and gas industry have signaled their determination to play their part in trying to meet the Paris climate goals.
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Those at the forefront of change such as Shell, Equinor, BP and Eni are gradually stepping up investment in renewable power.
They are also relying on significant use of carbon “offsets” to meet the net-zero emissions targets they are setting themselves.
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The European oil majors are not alone. Aviation and industrial sectors are using carbon credits while they wait for cleaner fuels to hit the market.