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What is nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen dioxide gas, what are its harms? What does nitrogen dioxide smell like? Is it harmful?
Nitrogen dioxide gas is a compound that has a pungent odor and usually has a yellowish-brown color. This gas is harmful to human health and long-term exposure may impair lung…
Europe’s largest carbon dioxide storage facility starts in Denmark | News in brief
When fully operational, the Greensand facility can store the emissions of 700,000 Danes. Denmark-based energy company Ineos is launching a facility for storing captured carbon dioxide, which is to become…
Denmark agrees on historic carbon dioxide tax
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screenDenmark presents a historic carbon dioxide tax on agriculture. Photo: Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau/TT After intensive negotiations, the Danish government has passed a political package aimed at…
The host agency has found a storage site for 800,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year
Sweden’s government has invested 36 billion so that companies and industries that burn branches, leaves and other biomass should start capturing carbon dioxide from their chimneys. It involves turning the…
Rain controls ecosystems’ emissions of carbon dioxide
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Genre image: Rainfall and plant photosynthesis affect carbon dioxide emissions, new study shows. Photo: Jimmy Wixtröm If the soil is moist, global warming can accelerate…
Agriculture in Denmark receives a carbon dioxide fee
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Agriculture in Denmark will be taxed on carbon dioxide. Archive image. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT From 2030, Denmark will introduce a carbon dioxide tax for the…
Africa now emits more carbon dioxide than it absorbs
The latest data compiled by the Global Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg shows that the continent now emits more greenhouse gases than it absorbs. 1…
Patient died of carbon dioxide poisoning
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Region Västernorrland has made a report according to lex Maria after a patient who developed carbon dioxide poisoning died at the hospital in Örnsköldsvik. Archive…
Three times as high carbon dioxide emissions after Canada’s forest fires
Vicious cycle causes climate change to increase share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen The August 2023 McDougall Creek wildfire raged above homes in West Kelowna, British Columbia. Photo: AP Wildfires caused…
New cement agreement can cut carbon dioxide emissions by 95 percent
full screenCemvision claims to be able to cut emissions in cement production by 95 percent. Photo: Casper Hedberg Cemvision claims to be able to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 95…