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NYC Sets Emission Cap, Building Owners to Retrofit their Properties with Upgrades

DESIGN 04.26.2019 10:05 AM

It is time for people to exert more effort in helping the environment cope up with the damages. (Photo : Adam Jones)Repair Work - Midtown Manhattan- New York City - New York - USA Global warming is one of today's pressing environmental issues that humanity is trying to undo.

Twisted Graphene is Science’s Hottest New Topic

03.26.2019 09:31 AM

Atom-sized superconductors discovered with a simple angle adjustment. Just a year ago, scientists presented results that seemed almost too good to be true: Carbon sheets only a single atom thick, called graphene, took on a pair of important physical properties when they were twisted at just the right "magic" angle relative to one another.

India May Be The Answer To Trump's World Climate Pact Turnaround

04.13.2017 03:50 AM

From being the major worry for environmentalists to becoming their hope, India the fastest growing economy and major emitter of carbon is working on fixing the global issue.

Carbon Nanotubes Soon Become The Future Of Water Filtration, Perfect Alternative To Eliminate Toxins & Other Contaminants

03.30.2017 18:31 PM

Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology are planning to manipulate Carbon Nanotube as a nest generation water filter media. As carbon nanotube dislikes water, so during filtration it would absorb all organic compounds and let the water go.

Carbon Emission Debate Starts: Environmentalists Call Trump To Reconsider Passive Stance On Climate Change

03.27.2017 00:59 AM

Hefty penal consequences brew for carbon emitting individuals and entities as the Paris agreement pushes for 80 percent greenhouse gas reduction by 2050.

Material Harder Than Diamond Reportedly Created

12.03.2015 21:59 PM

Q-carbon, according to reports, is a material harder than diamond that is successfully created by researchers at North Carolina State University.

How's the Carbon Stacking Up? NOAA Says CO2 Has Passed Its Mark

05.08.2015 14:22 PM

The latest human first has chilling consequences for our species, and all others: for the first time since scientists began tracking global carbon dioxide concentrations in our atmosphere, we have surpassed 400 parts per million worldwide.

How Can Soil Erosion Cause Our Doom? Loss of Nutrients Poised to Cause Massive Famine

05.07.2015 20:51 PM

It's not as colorful in an action movie as invaders from other galaxies, for example, but it seems that soil erosion might be just as deadly to humans. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley warn that human food security is at risk from the accelerating rate of soil depletion.

Scientists Make Temperature Sensor From Tobacco Cells

04.01.2015 16:10 PM

Temperature Sensor Made from Tobacco Cells Scientists and engineers love copying nature, there is even a term for it, biomimicry. Evolution has usually had thousands, millions, if not billions of years to perfect a mechanism, so it's usually pretty good.

Carbon Nanotube Brain Implants Could Enhance Parkinson's Treatments

03.26.2015 23:40 PM

Using Carbon Nanotubes in Brain Implants Carbon materials are an extremely hot topic in science right now. Just today we previously covered a story involving a carbon nano-material.

2015, The Year of Climate Change―And Doing Something About It

01.13.2015 16:32 PM

A new year, a new mission―and for 2015 researchers, politicians and conservationists are looking to reduce man's carbon footprint on a serious level.

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