Carolyn Porco

Voyager's passage through Saturn's inner system exposed diverse moons with dynamic forces at work. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, whose surface remained invisible through its thick, ubiquitous haze, nonetheless teased observers with hints of a possible ocean of liquid hydrocarbons.

American Scientist

Nicholas Stern

Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.

English Economist

Timothy Noah

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

American Journalist

Otto Wallach

In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.

German Scientist

Ronald Reagan

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

American President

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

Royalty

Elon Musk

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

South African Businessman

Narendra Modi

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.

Indian Politician

Joe Kaeser

Like the UAE, we have been thinking of the time after hydrocarbons for a very long time.

German Businessman

Enrique Pena Nieto

I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.

Mexican Statesman

Hydrocarbons are important in daily life as major energy sources for transportation and heating.

Energy Source

Burning hydrocarbons contributes to air pollution and climate change.

Environmental Impact

Hydrocarbons vary from gases like methane to solid forms like coal.

Variety of Forms

The shape and structure of hydrocarbons affect their properties and uses.

Structure Matters

Many everyday items contain hydrocarbons, from plastics to pharmaceuticals.

Ubiquitous in Products

Hydrocarbons are found in nature, not just in industrial contexts.

Natural Occurrence

 The enzymes remanufactured the hydrocarbons into carbohydrates -- fungal sugars. Some of these mushrooms are very happy mushrooms. They're very large. They're showing how much nutrition that they could've obtained. But something else happened, which was an epiphany in my life. They sporulated, the spores attract insects,

6 ways mushrooms can...

 a fossil fuel extracted from deep underground. The energy in gasoline comes from a class of molecules called hydrocarbons. There are hundreds of different hydrocarbons in crude oil, and different ones are used to make gasoline and diesel— which is why you can't use them interchangeably.

What’s the best fuel for...

 produce simple organic compounds called hydrocarbons, which form a layer that protects their bodies from drying out. The precise blend of compounds in this layer is species-specific. Its scent can double as a way for insects to attract potential mates, known as a sex pheromone.

The sexual deception of...

 coming out of the permafrost and this relates to our ability to detect hydrocarbons on other worlds but also to quantify greenhouse gas emissions as our as our planet warms and we're starting to take this instrument to places like Kilimanjaro where the glaciers contain

Kevin Hand: Exploring...

 flowing across the surface. It is very cold, however, too cold for liquid water, so these rivers may instead be flowing with liquid hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane. These are composed of hydrogen, and, more importantly, carbon, which is the basic building block

Why extremophiles bode...

 Take petroleum, a mixture of different types of hydrocarbons. Some of these are valuable as fuels, and others make good raw materials for generating electric power. To separate them, experts rely on one important different hydrocarbons boil at different temperatures.

How do we separate the...

 but it still has solids, liquids and gases, and it has a liquid hydrocarbon, which might be a possible solvent. We'll see. Next thing we want to look at is, are there planets around other stars that might have life? So we will be looking in this way

How the James Webb Space...

 it's it's wickedly hard once again the culprits our own technologies but this time they are foundational they are the hydrocarbons we burn to fuel our technological civilization but which contribute to the greenhouse effect at

We can solve big...

 Exhaust from fossil fuel-burning vehicles releases nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons which react to form ozone. And while some ozone in the upper atmosphere helps shield us from ultraviolet rays, on the ground,

What’s in the air you...

 This liquid containing contaminants like radioactive material, salts, heavy metals, and hydrocarbons, needs to be stored and disposed of. That's usually done in pits on-site in deep wells