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• Sichuan Forest Carbon Sink Project Successfully Registered At UNFCCC

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 432
  A forest-based carbon sink project in Chinas Sichuan province, which is said to be the worlds first climate, community and biodiversity based forest carbon sink project, has been successfully registered at the CDM Council of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.Under the project, 2251.8 hectares ...
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• Researchers Build Machine That Turns CO2 Into Fuel

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 743
  Imagine a machine that could suck carbon dioxide right out of the air and magically transform it into a usable product. It may seem like wishful thinking, but that’s exactly what researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories hope to do. They’ve created a protoype of a device that can turn carbon dioxide ...
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• Researchers Develop Machine To Recycle Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 433
  U.S. researchers have demonstrated a technology that uses the sun’s heat to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of traditional fuels , a reverse combustion process that may emerge as a practical alternative to sequestration of CO2 emissions from power plants. The prototype “Sunshine to ...
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• Solar Heat Powered Machine Turns CO2 Back Into Fuel

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 138
  This is the simple description, of course - the machine, made of a metal cylinder, is called the CR5 (Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator) is working on the principle that heat triggers a thermo-chemical reaction in an iron-rich composite material.
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• CCS partnerships: Notes from day three of Regional Carbon Sequestration Conference

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 124
  This is the fourth in a series of posts from ACCCE’s National Communications Director, Steve Gates, who attended the Regional Carbon Sequestration Conference in Pittsburgh, Penn., from November 16-19, 2009. Last summer, the International Energy Agency (IEA) laid out in...
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• Reforestation: Challenges and Opportunities

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is a timeless issue that has been propounded into the public knowledge sphere since I was a child. Always eager to learn the actuality of environmental propaganda, I have been tracking reforestation practices since 2001. I first ground-truthed the realities of sustainable ...
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• A final thought from Pittsburgh

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 124
  This is the third in a series of posts from ACCCE’s National Communications Director, Steve Gates, who attended the Regional Carbon Sequestration Conference in Pittsburgh, Penn., from November 16-19, 2009. Conferences like the one I attended this week in Pittsburgh...
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• Farmer plants 100,000 trees: still not enough carbon credits

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 526
  | Sourced From Theland.farmonline.com.au | AFTER planting 100,000 trees on their New England grazing property “Blaxland” since 1990 – and still planting – the Street family expected to be well in the black on greenhouse gas accounting. But “Blaxland” is not in the black. Despite carbon sequestration ...
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• Carbon storage research gets $601,158 federal grant

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 150
  KALAMAZOO–Armed with more than $600,000 in new federal funds, a Western Michigan University-led effort to store greenhouse gas emissions deep below the ground is picking up steam, positioning Michigan in the forefront of states exploring carbon capture and geological sequestration and providing the geological ...
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• Oceans can’t keep up with human emissions

  
  EcoTone — Authority: 119
  A study out in Nature today puts some long-term figures on a trend that climate scientists and ecologists have seen coming for some time: Oceans are no longer absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere like they used to. Growing ocean acidity is slowing their ability to keep up as humans pump more and more ...
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• Confirmed: Oceans Absorbing Less CO2 - First Year-by-Year Study Goes Back to 1765

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 716
  photo: Shayne Kaye via flickr. The first year-by-year study of the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the worlds oceans since the industrial revolution confirms a disturbing trend: Oceans are struggling to keep up with all the carbon humans are spewing into the atmosphere, with the proportion of emissions ...
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• Confirmed: Oceans Absorbing Less CO2 - First Year-by-Year Study Goes Back to 1765

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 716
  photo: Shayne Kaye via flickr. The first year-by-year study of the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the worlds oceans since the industrial revolution confirms a disturbing trend: Oceans are struggling to keep up with all the carbon humans are spewing into the atmosphere, with the proportion of emissions ...
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• CCS success: Notes from day two of the Regional Carbon Sequestration Conference

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 124
  This is the second in a series of posts from ACCCE’s National Communications Director, Steve Gates, who is attending the Regional Carbon Sequestration Conference underway in Pittsburgh, Penn. For those who might question the substance behind CCS, I have one...
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• Offset Your Infidelity

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 137
  Do you have difficulty being faithful? Fear not: CheatNeutral allows you to offset your infidelity by paying another couple not to cheat. With just a few easy payments, you can assuage you guilt and continue your meandering ways. Sound crazy? Thats because the "service" is an elaborate satire of carbon offsets, ...
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• University gets $56 million in funding

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 556
  University of Texas at Austin researchers have received 123 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants for nearly $56 million.The projects are spread among 14 schools and units with many of the projects crossing disciplinary boundaries. They range from research into energy sources and storage devices, ...
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• Oceans ability to sequester carbon diminishing

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A new study—the first of its kind—has completed an annual accounting of the oceans intake of carbon over the past 250 years, and the news is troubling. According to the study, published in Nature , the oceans ability to sequester carbon is struggling to keep-up with mankinds ever-growing emissions. Since 2000 ...
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• Injecting CO2 Instead of Water in Geothermal Wells Could Triple-Serve the Environment

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 138
  When we hear about carbon dioxide, its like hearing of a serial killer. LBNL (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and a CA-based company Symyx Technologies, instead, aided by several U.S. universities, have changed the image of this greenhouse gas a bit by putting it into a green job: geothermal energy harvesting.
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• U.S. and China Issue Joint Statement on Emissions Targets

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 132
  U.S.-China Joint Statement November 17, 2009 Beijing, China At the invitation of President Hu Jintao of the People’s Republic of China, President Barack Obama of the United States of America is paying a state visit to China from November 15–18, 2009.  The Presidents held in-depth, productive and candid ...
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• Record year for CO2 emissions, even with economic slowdown

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  8.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide was emitted into the earths atmosphere in 2008, a growth of 2 percent despite the economic crisis. This averages out to each person contributing a record high of 1.3 tons of carbon, according to a report in the journal Nature Science . While the global recession slowed the growth of ...
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• Terrestrial sequestration: Notes from the Regional Carbon Sequestration Conference

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 127
  This is the first in a series of posts from ACCCE’s National Communications Director, Steve Gates, who is attending the Regional Carbon Sequestration Conference underway in Pittsburgh, Penn. Whether you’ve heard it here or elsewhere, carbon capture and sequestration, or...
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