carbon, environmental impact, flash graphene, james tour, recycling

Turning Trash Into Valuable Graphene in a Flash

While recycling efforts have evolved over the years, turning trash into graphene provides both environmental and business advantages. Find out more about how this recycling method can create a lucrative business. The problem many businesses and organizations have with recycling methods is that they are rarely efficient and even more rarely profitable. However, turning trash ...

Mike West

Graphene.

From Stardust to Pale Blue Dot: Interstellar Journey of Carbon to Earth

We are made of stardust, the saying goes, and a pair of studies from University of Michigan research found that may be more true than we previously thought. The first study, led by U-M researcher Jie (Jackie) Li and published in Science Advances, finds that most of the carbon on Earth was likely delivered from the ...

Troy Oakes

The vast universe.

The Biggest Trees Capture the Most Carbon: Large Trees Dominate Carbon Storage in Forests

Older, large-diameter trees have been shown to store disproportionally massive amounts of carbon compared to smaller trees, highlighting their importance in mitigating climate change, according to a new study in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. Researchers examined the aboveground carbon storage of large-diameter trees (>21 inches or >53.3 cm) on National Forest lands within Oregon ...

Troy Oakes

A large-diameter tree.

Ancient Carbon Unlikely to Cause Massive Greenhouse Gas Release

Permafrost in the soil and methane hydrates deep in the ocean are large reservoirs of ancient carbon. As soil and ocean temperatures rise, the reservoirs have the potential to break down, releasing enormous quantities of the potent greenhouse gas methane. But would this methane actually make it to the atmosphere? Researchers at the University of Rochester ...

Troy Oakes

A melting iceberg.