Chemistry Nobel Awards Discovery That Can Help Climate

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share 11 million kronor ($1.2 million) for creating molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm said in a statement Wednesday. Applications for the so-called metal-organic frameworks include capturing carbon dioxide and harvesting water from desert air.