The North American Carbon Program (NACP) is a community-driven element of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, which established it as one of the major...
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Carbon is an experimental programming language designed for connectiveness with C++. The project is open-source and was started at Google. Google engineer...
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Project Vulcan (category NASA programs)
NASA/DOE funded effort under the North American Carbon Program (NACP) to quantify North American fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at space/time...
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Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, is a form of carbon commonly used to filter contaminants from water and air, among many other uses....
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Great Green Wall (China) (redirect from Three North Shelter Forest Program)
Three-North Shelter Forest Program (simplified Chinese: 三北防护林; traditional Chinese: 三北防護林; pinyin: Sānběi Fánghùlín), also known as the Three-North Shelterbelt...
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consists of one carbon atom and one oxygen atom connected by a triple bond. It is the simplest carbon oxide. In coordination complexes, the carbon monoxide ligand...
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The Carbon Motors Corporation was an American automobile manufacturer headquartered in Connersville, Indiana, United States. Formed in 2003, Carbon Motors...
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program aims to reduce companies' greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change risk. CDP requests information on climate risks and low carbon...
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Gretchen Keppel-Aleks (category American women scientists)
Archived from the original on 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2019-09-13. "North American Carbon Program". www.nacarbon.org. Retrieved 2019-09-11. "Professors Keppel-Aleks...
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source of available carbon in the carbon cycle, atmospheric CO2 is the primary carbon source for life on Earth. In the air, carbon dioxide is transparent...
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The carbon cycle is that part of the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere...
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Carbon tetrachloride, also known by many other names (such as carbon tet for short and tetrachloromethane, also recognised by the IUPAC), is a chemical...
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A carbon monoxide detector or CO detector is a device that detects the presence of the carbon monoxide (CO) gas to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning....
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A carbon tax is a tax levied on the carbon emissions from producing goods and services. Carbon taxes are intended to make visible the hidden social costs...
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Carbon monoxide poisoning typically occurs from breathing in carbon monoxide (CO) at excessive levels. Symptoms are often described as "flu-like" and...
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process in which a relatively pure stream of carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial sources is separated, treated...
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Obligation Program, which also applies the concept of low-carbon fuels. Several bills have been proposed in the United States for similar low-carbon fuel regulation...
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Chemically, black carbon (BC) is a component of fine particulate matter (PM ≤ 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter). Black carbon consists of pure carbon in several...
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Climate change (section Carbon sequestration)
Earth radiates after it warms from sunlight, warming the lower atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas driving global warming, has grown by...
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per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions (2.41 cents per litre on gasoline) beginning 1 July 2008, the first North American jurisdiction...
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Carbon emission trading (also called carbon market, emission trading scheme (ETS) or cap and trade) is a type of emissions trading scheme designed for...
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territories are subject to a carbon pricing mechanism, either by an in-province program or by one of two federal programs. As of April 2023[update] the...
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Radiocarbon dating (redirect from Carbon dated)
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material...
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Carbon farming is a set of agricultural methods that aim to store carbon in the soil, crop roots, wood and leaves. The technical term for this is carbon...
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Carbon-neutral fuel is fuel which produces no net-greenhouse gas emissions or carbon footprint. In practice, this usually means fuels that are made using...
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Heather Graven (category American chemical engineers)
2018-03-15. "North American Carbon Program". www.nacarbon.org. Retrieved 2018-03-15. "CMS - the NASA Carbon Monitoring System". carbon.nasa.gov. Retrieved...
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FutureGen (category Carbon capture and storage)
mitigation Carbon capture and storage Combined cycle Gasification Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate North American Carbon Program Talbot...
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institute, which includes the Carbon War Room (which merged with RMI in December 2014), operates many global programs. RMI is headquartered in Basalt...
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Northeast blackout of 2003 (redirect from 2003 north american blackout)
death was reported. In New York City, six deaths were reported: Two from carbon monoxide, two from fire, one from a fall off a roof while breaking into...
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The Carbon Trust is a United Kingdom-based consultancy established in March 2001. Its aim is to accelerate the pace of private sector decarbonisation and...
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