By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
As inventors of all varieties race to develop the magic eco-fuel, the best ion battery or the most effective solar collection system, geologists are quietly exploring how certain types of rocks absorb our human carbon emissions.
The phenomenon is not unique. Trees and plants absorb some carbon. The ocean absorbs carbon. But trees can only do so much, and when they die, they release the carbon back into the atmosphere. The ocean has limits as well; it is already becoming acidic as gobbles our thickening stream of pollution.
Rocks, though, can capture carbon and render it into a solid, where it is virtually inert.
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Satellite for measuring carbon lost in rocket misfire
By John DeFore
Green Right Now
Environmental scientists were to have a new set of eyes starting this week, thanks to a brand new satellite intended to help make sense of carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere.
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Tags: · Carbon Dioxide, carbon pollution, carbon sinks, Greenhouse Gases, NASA, Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Later Fall Colors A Good Thing, Says Researcher
By John DeFore
The changing schedules of fall foliage may be a headache for nature lovers who time their forest vacations to maximize viewing of autumnal reds and oranges. But they could be good for the environment those travelers set out to enjoy.
According to a new article in the journal Global Change Biology, a team led by Michigan Tech forestry professor David F. Karnosky has established that increased levels of atmospheric CO2 “act directly to delay the usual autumn spectacle of changing colors and falling leaves in northern hardwood forests.”
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Tags: · Carbon Dioxide, Travel, Trees
