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Turning Industrial Exhaust Into Useful Materials With a New Electrode

Flue gas is exhausted from home furnaces, fireplaces and even industrial plants, and it carries polluting carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.

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Fossilised Plankton Study Gives Long-Term Hope for Oxygen Depleted Oceans

A new study suggests the world’s oxygen depleted seas may have a chance of returning to higher oxygen concentrations in the centuries to come, despite our increasingly warming climate.

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Computer Models Let Scientists Peer Into the Mystery Beneath Jupiter’s Clouds

Atmospheric study finds surprises about our largest neighboring planet and its deep atmosphere.

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Wetlands do not Need to be Flooded to Provide the Greatest Climate Benefit

Wetlands make up only about six percent of the land area but contain about 30 percent of the terrestrial organic carbon pool.

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The pine Beetles are Back. Here's Why and What You Can do About it

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war.

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Some Tropical Land May Experience Stronger-than-Expected Warming Under Climate Change

Some tropical land regions may warm more dramatically than previously predicted, as climate change progresses, according to a new CU Boulder study that looks millions of years into Earth’s past.

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Hydrogen Power Gets a Spark, Thanks to SDSC’s Expanse

Solar panels and wind turbines increasingly dot the landscape, but the future of clean energy may well depend on how smoothly we burn hydrogen.

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Strategic Tree Planting Brings Meaningful Carbon Reductions

A new study finds that Canada could remove at least five times its annual carbon emissions with strategic planting of more than six million hectares of trees along the northern edge of the boreal forest.

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Concordia Study Finds Snow Droughts in Western and Southern Canada Could Affect Nearly All Canadians

Researchers at Concordia have developed a new method of measuring the amount of usable water stored in snowpacks.

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York U Researchers Develop New Technique to Measure Previously Undetected Airborne PFAS

For decades, scientists knew there was a huge swath of undetected and unaccounted for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the atmosphere, often referred to as PFAS dark matter, but no one knew how much was missing or how to measure them.

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