If they’re not culling kangaroos, they’re wanting to kill off farting camels, pigs and water buffalo – there’s just no pleasing those Orrstrayans. The Australian environmental group views these methane gas-expelling creatures as harmful to the ozone layer. More »
At this year’s TED conference Bill Gates discussed the importance of eliminating CO2 emissions, bringing out a jar of fireflies as an example of a living “energy miracle”. Now you can watch Gates’s entire talk – bugs and all – online. [TED]
At the TED Conference last year Bill Gates unleashed a swarm of mosquitoes to demonstrate a point about malaria. This year, he’s taking on CO2 in a big way. And he brought fireflies. More »
Assuming a 30km round trip to a shopping centre on Black Friday, one study found Cyber Monday emits 50 times less carbon through the miracles of online shopping. More »
Scientists at Columbia University are working on a sort of synthetic tree that aims to capture about 1,000 times as much carbon dioxide as more organic versions. They’re hoping to extend the technology even to heavy-emitting cars and planes. More »
The idea is actually very simple: construct a tower fitted with 200-400 trees in areas of high pollution. Basically, it works like a gigantic filter—scrubbing smog and converting CO2 into oxygen.
Looks like Hubble may turn to be a key in finding extraterrestrial life. A new technique developed by NASA has found CO2, one of the byproducts of life, in a Jupiter-sized planet called HD189733b:
