Articles about 'carbon dioxide'

Research shows that a new Ice Age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2 due to humans, despite the advantageous trend in solar radiation of our current age.

Plant scientists in Cambridge have embarked on ambitious plans to improve crop yields by solving one of the chief limitations of photosynthesis.

The presence of even a simple chemical reaction can delay or prevent the spreading of stored carbon dioxide in underground aquifers, new research from the University of Cambridge has revealed.

Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions.

The future of forests in a changing world will be debated at an international conference in Cambridge this week.

Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some surprising conclusions about the way forward.

Solar energy company to develop and manufacture high performance, lower cost plastic solar cells.

Researchers have discovered key plant enzymes that normally make the energy stored in wood, straw, and other non-edible parts of plants difficult to extract.

The Bioenergy Initiative is bringing biology and engineering together to address the challenge of meeting our future energy needs.

Visitors to this year's Royal Society Summer Exhibition will have a chance to discover how scientists from the University of Cambridge are studying ways to harness algae as a renewable energy source.