Cement is responsible for about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and demand is growing as the population booms.

This strange white paste might not look like much, but it might help solve the sand shortage, while making the cement manufacturing process capture carbon dioxide instead of emitting it. Scientists at ...

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Cement is the foundation of our civilization — quite literally. We couldn’t construct the buildings around us without cement. We couldn’t have durable constructions. Everything would fall apart. But ...

The cement industry is a big emitter of carbon dioxide, making up about 7% of emissions globally. There’s interest in changing that, including from the industry itself. Two major producers of cement, ...

The method, which the researchers say is “an absolute miracle”, uses the electrically-powered arc furnaces used for steel recycling to simultaneously recycle cement, the carbon-hungry component of ...