Carbon

...Copenhagen underway, a new paper by Oxford University researchers says that rich countries need to pay the full incremental cost of low carbon technology for developing countries to avoid dangerous climate change. The authors argue that...

In this article: Coal, Climate change, Copenhagen, University of Oxford, India, and China

...is not any old tonne of coal: it will be, as close as we can estimate it, the trillionth tonne of carbon to be released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide since industrialisation began in the 18th Century. The Science Museum, London,...

In this article: Carbon dioxide, Climate change, Science Museum, Copenhagen, Carbon footprint, Global warming, Coal, and Fossil fuel

...there." "Given the demand for fossil fuels, it seems to me inevitable that such 'exotic' forms of fossil carbon will be developed and exploited," says Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at the University of Oxford. "This all...

In this article: Methane, New Scientist, Coal, Fossil fuel, US Geological Survey, and Sequestration

Homes 'can cut CO2 by up to 80%' Carbon dioxide emissions from UK homes could be cut by up to 80% by 2050, according to a low carbon strategy produced by Oxford University. Financial incentives for home owners and tighter energy efficiency...

In this article: Carbon dioxide, Oxford University, UK, Climate change, Co-operative Bank, and Friends of the Earth

...and Bonding of Fullerenes and Nanotubes", in 2005. During his work at Oxford, David Britz created more than ten new carbon nanotube- and fullerene-based materials and processes. He has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2002...

In this article: David Britz, University of Oxford, Oxford, University of Nottingham, Christ Church, Oxford, and Franklin, Massachusetts

...key technologies in their infancy. Carbon offset entrepreneur Mike Mason said offsets were clearly not a long-term solution, as shortly the whole world would need to start contracting emissions. From my post-meeting soundings there did...

In this article: Climate change, Tax, Institute for Public Policy Research, Copenhagen, Moral imperative, and Kyoto Protocol

...2050. Roger Pielke Jr is a professor at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and a visiting professor at University of Oxford's Said Business School who has accepted the case for cutting carbon emissions. However,...

In this article: Roger Pielke Jr, UK, Carbon dioxide, Coal, Aston University, University of Oxford, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and Said Business School

Chillis: Oxford Professor Uses Carbon Nanotubes to Measure Red Hot Chillies Oxford Professor Uses Carbon Nanotubes to Measure Red Hot Chillies A Don at Oxford University has come up with a novel way to measure the hotness of chilli peppers...

In this article: Chillies, Oxford, Oxford University, and Capsaicin

...about living in an old house. When ornithologist Kurt Burnham of the University of Oxford and colleagues carbon dated the guano and other debris of a gyrfalcon nest in Greenland, he got a very surprising answer: Carbon dating revealed that...

In this article: Gyrfalcon, University of Oxford, and Greenland