June 22, 2009
'Synthetic tree' claims to catch carbon in the air
CNN

"Scientists in the United States are developing a "synthetic tree" capable of collecting carbon around 1,000 times faster than the real thing..."
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March 5, 2009
Scrubbing the skies
The Economist

"Preventing catastrophic climate change, most people agree, will mean reducing the level of man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere..."
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September 3, 2008
Tucson company scrubbing CO2 out of the air
KVOA

"Did you know that for every mile you drive, you put one pound of carbon dioxide into the air? Trees suck up some of it. Now a Tucson company is developing a machine that imitates this behavior..."
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August 28, 2008
Scientists envision trees – real or fake – extracting excess CO2 from air
San Diego Union Tribune

"The poet Joyce Kilmer was right: "Only God can make a tree." Klaus Lackner just wants to make it better..."
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July 31, 2008
Tucson firm's 'synthetic trees' could help clean air
Tucson Citizen

"A Tucson company has developed a way to help resolve the global air pollution threat of rising carbon dioxide concentrations..."
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July 14, 2008
Mopping Up the CO2 Deluge
Time Magazine

"The oceans aid the sky by absorbing some CO2 in greenhouse gases. If they could be made to absorb more, warming might be curbed..."
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July 2, 2008
Capturing Carbon
NOVA Science Now

"An eighth-grader's science fair project prompts her scientist father to develop a new way to pull excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere..."
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June 2008
Wallace Broecker Geochemist, Palisades, New York
Smithsonian Magazine

"How to stop global warming? CO2 "scrubbers," a new book says..."
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May 31, 2008
Machine to clean up greenhouse gas is breakthrough in war on global warming, say scientists
Mail Online

"Scientists say they have invented a machine that can suck carbon dioxide out of the air – potentially creating a vital weapon in the war against global warming..."
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May 31, 2008
Could US scientist's 'CO2 catcher' help to slow warming?
The Guardian

"It has long been the holy grail for those who believe that technology can save us from catastrophic climate change: a device that can "suck" carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air..."
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May 29, 2008
Hot Stuff
BBC

"Some clever people think that global warming offers a huge business opportunity for companies who can find new ways of tackling climate change..."
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April 29, 2008
Solving global warming with giant vacuums
Los Angeles Times

"Here's a simple solution to global warming: vacuum carbon dioxide out of the air..."
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March 28, 2008
Spongelike Air-Capture Gadget Scrubs Away Carbon Emissions
Popular Mechanics

"With the specter of global warming seared into our national consciousness, reducing carbon dioxide emissions has become a priority..."
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February 20, 2008
Global warming inspires enterprising solutions
USA Today

"The phone-booth-size machine humming away in a Tucson lab may look like a science-fair project on steroids. Its inventors, however, say it's a potent new weapon in the battle against global warming..."
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November 25, 2007
Tucson firm has plan for towers to suck up CO2
Arizona Daily Star

"A Tucson firm thinks it may have the answer to global warming: millions of carbon-dioxide-sucking towers that would allow us to merrily burn fossil fuel without killing the planet..."
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July 5, 2007
Giant Carbon Dioxide Vacuums
ScienCentral News

"Could giant machines that clean carbon dioxide out of the air be part of the solution to global warming? As this ScienCentral News video explains, one company is creating giant carbon dioxide vacuums..."
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June 6, 2007
Local company working on machine that eliminates CO2 from the air
Fox 11 News

"Deanna Morgan reports. A local company says it has invented a machine that can help eliminate carbon dioxide from the environment."
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June 1, 2007
Can a CO2 'hoover' help stop climate change?
National Public Radio

"Each year, the world releases more than 25 billion tons of carbon dioxide. Scrubbers exist to strip pollutants such as sulfur from smokestack emissions — could a carbon dioxide scrubber be built to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and help combat global climate change?"
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May 11, 2007
Can a CO2 'hoover' help stop climate change?
Science Museum

"Scientists have invented a greenhouse gas 'hoover' - an ingenious device that can suck carbon dioxide out of air..."
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May 4, 2007
Global Research Technologies’ President Allen B. Wright to Address 'Abrupt Climate Change Fellowship Conference'
Business Wire

"Allen B. Wright of Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT) will provide the luncheon address at the 2007 'Abrupt Climate Change Fellowship Conference' in New York City today..."
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April 24, 2007
First Successful Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved by Columbia University Scientist and Private Company
The Earth Institute at Columbia University

"Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture carbon from the air..."
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April 19, 2007
Giant Carbon Vacuums Could Cool Earth
The Christian Science Monitor

"For a decade, Columbia University physicist Klaus Lackner has written about a way to stave off – and even reverse – climate change from human-emitted carbon dioxide: Scrub it directly from the atmosphere. And now, after three years of R&D, a Tucson, Ariz., company has unveiled a working model of a device based on Professor Lackner's idea..."
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October 24, 2005
Climate, No Easy Way Out of the Greenhouse
Discover Magazine

"Wallace Broecker, Newberry professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, has some advice for global warming activists to follow over the next 100 years or so..."
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June 2005
How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save the Planet
Popular Science

"David Keith never expected to get a summons from the White House. But in September 2001, officials with the President’s Climate Change Technology Program invited him and more than two dozen other scientists to participate in a roundtable discussion..."
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August 16, 2004
Global Warming
BusinessWeek Magazine

"Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change..."
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April 13, 2004
Plan To Build Emissions Scrubber
BBC News

"Scientists have discussed so-called "wind-scrubbers" in principle but this is the first attempt to build one..."
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