Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage.

Wear resistant alloys are those that are made to resist abrasive wear, sliding wear, and erosive wear. They consist mostly of cobalt and chromium but may also contain tungsten or molybdenum and a ...

A conveyor belt carries chunks of raw cobalt at a plant in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo Cobalt is one of those metals that define the modern world. Historically it was used to ...

Oct. 24, 2024 — Lithium-sulfur batteries have never lived up to their potential as the next generation of renewable batteries for electric vehicles and other devices. But mechanical engineers ...

emissions from the petrol in your car are added together with the emissions created in the production of the food you eat and the clothes you wear. Even the objects we use every day have carbon ...

Cobalt demand is rising due to increased electric vehicle (EV) production. While there are no pure-play cobalt ETFs, investors have several alternatives to consider. Some ETFs focus broadly on ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

This week’s political headlines were eerily similar in feel to those of early July, following that momentous Joe Biden-Donald Trump debate. It’s the feel of a Democratic Party realizing (again ...

Google says it has wiped out its entire carbon footprint by investing in "high-quality carbon offsets". It became carbon-neutral in 2007 and says it has now compensated for all of the carbon it ...

According to TechCrunch, the company has figured out a cheap way to turn carbon dioxide captured from ... The technology developed by Oxylus uses a cobalt-based catalyst for the chemical reaction ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

Oct. 24, 2024 — Lithium-sulfur batteries have never lived up to their potential as the next generation of renewable batteries for electric vehicles and other devices. But mechanical engineers ...