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August 23, 2015
Image of the Week: Meet Carbon Nanofibres
Scientists may soon be able to pull some strings in the effort to slow climate change – literally. Researchers at George Washington University have sequestered CO2 from the atmosphere through a solar-powered process that turns the earth-heating gas into solid carbon nanofibres. Imagine then taking those nanofibres and creating construction material. This is an amazing example of turning the … Read more
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July 24, 2015
The Kinked Jet Stream
It’s been hotter in Alaska this year than some parts of Texas. Scientists are calling it the Land Surface Temperature Anomaly and it makes general climate patterns look upside down. The data, from NASA’s ‘Terra‘ satellite, shows red as above average temperatures for the region and blue as below average temperatures during the same eight-day … Read more