15-11-26 Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere--one that is far too thin to prevent large amounts of water on the surface of the planet from subliming or evaporating. But many researchers have suggested that the planet was once shroud...

15-11-25 Digital measurements of millions of trees indicate that previous studies likely overestimate the amount of carbon stored by temperate U.S. forests, according to a new NASA study. The findings could help scientists better understand the impact that t...

15-11-11 Small-footprint living refers to a lifestyle that minimizes one's impact on the environment. 低碳生活是指一种将人对环境的影响降至最低的生活方式。 Small-footprint直译是足迹极小，而根据词条的解释，我们可以看出，其实small-footprint中间是省略了carbon的...

15-10-23 Anirudh Sharma doesn't just want to pull harmful carbon from the air. He wants to offer a cheaper alternative to the exorbitant costs of ordinary printer ink. 阿尼鲁德夏尔马不仅想除掉空气中的有害炭物质，还希望创造一种更便宜的普通打印机油墨，解决墨水...

15-10-14 China plans to launch a national carbon trading market in 2017, part of a joint presidential statement issued by China and the United States on Friday. 中国计划于2017年启动全国碳交易市场，这成为25日中美两国元首发表的联合声明的一部分。 在联合声明中，...

15-09-23 Increased greenhouse gas emissions from the release of carbon dioxide and methane contained in the Arctic permafrost could result in $43 trillion in additional economic damage by the end of the next century, according to researchers from the Univers...

15-09-15 The Southern Ocean has begun to absorb more atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) according to new research from an international team, including the University of East Anglia. A decade ago scientists announced that the amount of CO2 being absorbed by th...

15-08-21 China's carbon emissions have been substantially over estimated by international agencies for more than 10 years, according to research co-led by the University of East Anglia. From 2000-2013 China produced 2.9 gigatonnes less carbon than previous e...

15-07-29 The world's deserts may be storing some of the climate-changing carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, a new study suggests. Massive aquifers underneath deserts could hold more carbon than all the plants on land, according to the new research....

15-07-23 The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession - not the reduced use of coal, research from the University of California Irvine, the Universit...