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Predicting the fate of underground carbon

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new modeling methodology for determining the capacity and assessing the risks of leakage of potential underground carbon-dioxide reservoirs.

Physics / General Physics

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Plump up the clay: Carbon dioxide moves into and expands a common mineral in carbon sequestration caprocks

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have direct evidence that high-pressure carbon dioxide or CO2 migrates into the clay montmorillonite causing it to expand, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

In search of the 'lost ladybug'

Leah Tyrrell wants to make something clear: She does not wear ladybug sweatshirts. She does not carry her belongings in ladybug bags, shelter from the rain beneath a ladybug-shaped umbrella, or take notes with pens decorated ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

THEMIS Mars camera celebrates a decade's discoveries

Ten years ago, on Feb. 19, 2002, the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), a multi-band camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, began scientific operations at the Red Planet. Since then the camera has circled ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists see red on NASA cuts of Mars missions

NASA said Monday it's not giving up on Mars, but it'll have to get there later and at a lower price.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 8

Carbon storage project combines innovation and outreach

Geologists are hoping to learn a great deal about geologic carbon sequestration from injecting 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into sandstone 7,000 feet beneath Decatur, Ill. And they're hoping the public learns a ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ohio quakes probably triggered by waste disposal well, say seismologists

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earthquakes that have shaken an area just outside Youngstown, Ohio in the last nine months—including a substantial one on New Year’s Eve—are likely linked to a disposal well ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

European carbon market suffers in annus horribilis

Europe's market in carbon emissions is hoping for outside help after a year in which prices slumped to record lows, savaging claims that trading in CO2 brakes the rise of dangerous greenhouse gases.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 24

Project begins injection of CO2 for storage at Illinois Basin

The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC) has begun injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) for the first million-tonne demonstration of carbon sequestration in the U.S. The CO2 will be stored permanently in the Mt. Simon Sand ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 13

Russia Mars probe considered lost: report

Efforts to resume contact with a Russian space mission to Mars stuck in Earth orbit after launch have failed and the probe must be considered lost, Interfax news agency reported Saturday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 11

Snowball Earth hypothesis challenged

The hypothesis that the Earth was completely covered in ice 635 million years ago has received a serious blow. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 during that period was much lower than previously thought, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3


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