Displaying items by tag: Carbon dioxide

Engineers at RMIT University have invented energy-efficient bricks with scrap materials, including glass, that are normally destined for landfill.

The CSIRO has developed new technology which can be used to pull cabon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere and put it into beer and other beverages.

The Hackett Foundation has donated $100,000 to Airborne Research Australia, a not-for-profit Australian research institute that conducts measurements of climate change.

An Indian company based in the southern state of Kerala is attracting global interest after its ability to capture carbon dioxide from its own coal-powered plant and converts it into baking soda was publicised.

A new study based on satellite observations, just released globally by Australia's science agency the CSIRO, is likely to cause a stir among anti-carbon dioxide global warming alarmist circles. According to the study, over the past three decades the rise in atmospheric CO2 has contributed significantly to the greening of our planet.

Understanding how climate change could impact on the deterioration of the basic building block of much of Australia's infrastructure - concrete - is crucial to ensuring major assets such as roads, ports and buildings continue to perform up to expectations, according to a CSIRO report.

After a mission failure in 2009, NASA plans to launch the replacement Orbiting Carbon Observatory in February 2013.

Today the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO published a snapshot of the state of climate change in Australia.

Recent snowfall studies in Antarctica suggest climate change has taken rainfall away from Western Australia to the benefit of the Law Done in East Antarctica.