Showing posts with label atmosphere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atmosphere. Show all posts

Thursday, October 17, 2024

This 3,775-year-old log may hold the secret to slowing climate change - The Washington Post

Under the right conditions, tons of wood could be buried underground in wood vaults, locking in a portion of human-generated CO2 for potentially thousands of years. While other carbon-capture technologies rely on expensive and energy-intensive machines to extract CO2, the tools for putting wood underground are simple: a tractor and a backhoe...


Saturday, May 12, 2018

Carbon dioxide in atmosphere exceeds 410 ppm, threatens human health - Business Insider

We have a pretty good idea of what Earth's atmosphere has looked like for the past 800,000 years. Humans like us — Homo sapiens— evolved only about 200,000 years ago, but ice-core records reveal intricate details of our planet's history from long before humans existed. By drilling more than 3 kilometers deep into the ice sheets over Greenland and Antarctica, scientists can see how temperature and atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels have changed since then.







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