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A Canadian study has looked at how much carbon per capita a person living in Canada produces and the conclusion is that if you live in a city you produce less carbon. Once more it’s proven that living in an urban centre with high density is better for the environment than urban sprawl.
When it [...]

Some researchers off the coast of Australia think that jelly balls is Earth’s way to fight global warming – neat!
By eating the algae, the salps turn the algae and their carbon dioxide into faeces which drops to the ocean floor. They also take carbon to the floor with them when they die after a short [...]

The Toronto Zoo is looking into using all that dung that they have and turning into electricity to help make the zoo carbon neutral.
Zoo board members heard that a digester big enough to produce 4 megawatts could power the zoo plus 15,000 homes in Scarborough.
The technology isn’t new. It’s used extensively in Germany, for [...]

Something that I’ve never thought about is happening in New Zealand and that’s using microwaves to store carbon in charcoal.
“The application of microwaves to charcoal making is new,” says Tim Flannery of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, an expert on climate change and not associated with Carbonscape. “If it increases efficiency in the charcoal-making process [...]

A researcher from the University of Calgary has create a machine that essentially scrubs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Tech Herald explains:
The team now believes it is close to achieving that goal with the development of a relatively simple machine that can capture, or “scrub” the trace amount of CO2 present in the [...]

Simple stuff really: forests are good for the environment and we ought to have more of them.
The researchers’ calculations suggest that carbon storage in Midwestern forests could offset the greenhouse gas emissions of almost two-thirds of nearby populations, and that proper management of forests could sustain or increase their storage capacity for future generations.
Based on [...]