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Greenhouse gases injected underground? It's new way to significantly cut the amount of carbon dioxide that reaches the atmosphere and spurs global warming, according to MIT engineers. Although promising, the technique has never been tested in a full-scale industrial operation.However, MIT engineers have developed a software tool to determine how much CO2 can be sequestered safely in geological formations.The work will be presented Wednesday, Nov. 18 at the 9th International Conference on...

New Haven, Conn. -- If climate disasters are to be averted, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) must be reduced below the levels that already exist today, according to a study published in Open Atmospheric Science Journal by a group of 10 scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom and France. The authors, who include two Yale scientists, assert that to maintain a planet similar to that on which civilization developed, an optimum CO2 level would be less than 350 ppm "” a dramatic...

The amount of methane in Earth's atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end approximately a decade in which atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas were essentially stable. The new study is based on data from a worldwide NASA-funded measurement network.Methane levels in the atmosphere have more than tripled since pre-industrial times, accounting for around one-fifth of the human contribution to greenhouse gas-driven global warming. Until recently, the leveling off of methane...

Carbon dioxide is only one of the greenhouse gases that make scientists stay up at night. Methane and nitrogen trifluoride are increasing which makes scientists worry about increasing global warming.  Methane is the greatest threat. It represents about one-third that of carbon dioxide produced by the burning of coal, oil and other fossil fuels.  As a greenhouse gas, methane is second to carbon dioxide.  Decaying plant material, land fills, natural gas, coal mining and animal waste...

New measurements released on Thursday show that levels of a powerful greenhouse gas are four times as high as previously thought.Scientists say about 5,400 metric tons of nitrogen trifluoride are in the atmosphere, with amounts increasing by about 11 percent per year.Nitrogen trifluoride, a colorless, odorless, nonflammable gas, is used to etch silicon wafers and in some lasers.Nitrogen trifluoride is 17,000 times more effective at warming the atmosphere than an equal mass of carbon dioxide,...

Hess, a US-based integrated energy company, has launched its C-Neutral program to commercial, industrial and institutional customers. Hess C-Neutral is a carbon-neutral energy program for natural gas, electricity and fuel oil. Through C-Neutral, Hess engineers calculate the carbon emissions associated with a customer's energy usage and include enough carbon offsets with the energy purchased to make it up to 100% carbon neutral. Gene Kutcher, Hess Energy Marketing's vice president of sales,...

Carbon Sciences Inc. (OTCBB: CABN), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, announced today that its website at www.carbonsciences.com has been revised to provide more information about its new CO2-to-Fuel technology. Details of the company's innovative technology to transform CO2 into fuel were unveiled on September 24, 2008 at the First International Summit on Policy, Technology and Investment in Cambridge, UK....

Greenhouse Gas Services, a venture between GE Energy Financial Services and electricity utility AES, has signed a master agreement with internet services major Google to co-develop projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce credits. The initial project will capture methane gas at the Mount Herman landfill in Caldwell County, North Carolina. As one of the first emissions reduction co-development projects in the US, Greenhouse Gas Services (GHGS) will design, build and operate...

By Wolfson, Sara High school students from Arkell, a small Canadian town an hour west of Toronto, planted 1,000 trees to onset the carbon emissions made by their school bus ride, according to the Orangeville Gazette. The teenagers are all involved in one of two environmental education programs: the Community Environment Leadership Program and the Headwaters Program. The idea for the tree planting came from their bus driver, Darryl Nichols, who said he knew the students were learning about...

By Anonymous Cows may seem miniscule when it comes to a warming globe, yet a single cow can produce 550-700 liters of methane a day from belching. In the United Kingdom (UK) it has been estimated that cattle could be responsible for about 3% of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions. "You don't actually hear the cows burp," comments David Beever, international director of Richard Keenan & Company, Ltd., a UK manufacturer of cattle feeding systems. "But they are permanently releasing...