The Other Carbon: Reducing Black Carbon's Role in Global Warming
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A professor at the annual AAAS meeting gives a talk on the role of black carbon, the other carbon, in global climate change.  A mere 10% reduction in black carbon would be equivalent to eliminating 25 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston.
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Though banned in the 1970s, toxic PCBs persist in high concentrations around the world. Now a Stanford team says it may have the solution: carbon. By Amit Asaravala.
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The case for using a carbon tax to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Molecular-scale carbon cylinders that receive and transmit light waves open the way for new types of communications equipment and solar cells.
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New materials provide a potentially cheaper way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Oil-sand, oil-shale, and coal-to-oil projects &#8211; alternative fuel sources that could enhance US energy security &#8211; have always faced one hurdle. They look good only when oil prices are high. Now, they have another challenge: global warming.
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Saving planet more complex than planting a tree Bad news for buyers of ecological Christmas presents and seekers of environmental quick fixes: offsetting carbon emissions by planting extra trees might not work as well as we had all hoped. It always seemed too easy, didn't it?â¦
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Consumer electronics aren't exactly easy on the environment Â they consume electricity that contributes to global warming, and toxins leach out of them when they end up in landfills.
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By absorbing half of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere, the oceans have a profound influence on climate. However, their ability to take up this carbon dioxide might be impaired as a result of climate change.
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Global warming (news - web sites) is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens the livelihoods
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Science & environment: Â· Party unveils blueprint for tackling climate change Â· End of the road by 2040 for petrol-driven cars
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A new study finds that technologies already exist to solve the problem of global warming. It says strategies employing these technologies over the next fifty years could put the brakes on rising levels of
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Exotic materials and cheaper substrates could lead to better photovoltaics.
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It's a trend that counts Leonardo DiCaprio, London cabs and Al Gore among its followers: Making life "carbon neutral" through tree-planting and other environmentally friendly efforts to curb emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. The theme is a hot one as scientists in Paris this week prepare to issue a major report on global warming &#151; but critics say the movement is counterproductive, even a scam.
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Geoengineering experts reveal plans to tackle global warming with fields of crops that reflect sun's heat
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By Hazimin Sulaiman  TECH companies are gradually moving towards a greener Earth with a little push from the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) pioneered by Intel and Google. The initiative is rapidly gaining momentum among major IT players.
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SCORCHING summers, hotter than that of 2003, could become more common in Europe by the middle of this century. The risk has more than doubled because of human activity producing increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.