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• USC scientists turn a harmful greenhouse gas into a tool for making pharmaceuticals

  A team of chemists at USC has developed a way to transform a hitherto useless ozone-destroying greenhouse gas that is the byproduct of Teflon manufacture and transform it into reagents for producing pharmaceuticals. The team will publish their discovery in Science. The method is also being patented. more

• Gaseous emissions from dinosaurs may have warmed prehistoric earth

  Sauropod dinosaurs could in principle have produced enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the climate many millions of years ago, at a time when the Earth was warm and wet. That's according to calculations reported in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.The hulking sauropods, distinctiv more

• Microbes may consume far more oil-spill waste than earlier thought

  Microbes living at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico may consume far more of the gaseous waste from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill than previously thought, according to research carried out within 100 miles of the spill site. A paper on that research, conducted before the Deepwater Horizon rig expl more

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• Wild weather can send greenhouse gases spiralling

  Wild weather can send greenhouse gases spiralling Nature 496, 7444 (2013). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/496147a Author: Quirin Schiermeier Researchers get to grips with effects of heat, drought and storms on carbon release more

• Energies, Vol. 6, Pages 1250-1265: Development of Specific Rules for the Application of Life Cycle Assessment to Carbon Capture and Storage

  Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a very innovative and promising solution for greenhouse gases (GHG) reduction, i.e., capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) at its source and storing it indefinitely to avoid its release to the atmosphere. This paper investigates a set of key issues in the development of more

• Energies, Vol. 6, Pages 1217-1232: The Influence of Allocation on the Carbon Footprint of Electricity Production from Waste Gas, a Case Study for Blast Furnace Gas

  Producing electricity from waste gas is an after treatment for waste gas while recovering the energy content. This paper addresses the methodology to calculate the effect that waste gas energy recovery has on lowering the impact of climate change. Greenhouse gases are emitted while burning the waste more

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