A powder extracted from plants could prevent carbon dioxide (CO2) from reaching the atmosphere. CO2 is humanity’s primary greenhouse gas emission, and it’s wreaking havoc on our planet. While we’ll ...

WATERLOO, Ont. – Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Waterloo, and teams from universities in China have created a powder that could trap twice the amount of carbon ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have created a powder that can capture CO 2 from factories and power plants. The powder, created in the lab of Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor ...

The fight against climate change may have found a new secret weapon in the form of a carbon-capturing powder that is capable of sucking up and storing as much carbon dioxide as a fully-grown tree.

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have created a powder that could capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from factories and power plants. The advanced carbon powder, developed using a novel process in ...

In the latest advance in efforts to find an inexpensive way to make hydrogen from ordinary water -- one of the keys to the much-discussed "hydrogen economy" -- scientists are reporting that powder ...