Going in reverse—how can greenhouse gas emissions be removed from the atmosphere?
Our weekly podcast on how to tackle climate change
LOWERING GREENHOUSE gas emissions won’t be enough to stop the world from overheating. Carbon needs to be sucked out of the atmosphere. But can that be done quickly enough -- and on what scale?
Nathalie Seddon of the Nature-Based Solutions Initiative explores the ways ecosystems can be enhanced to store carbon. And we go to Iceland to visit the world’s largest direct air capture facility that removes carbon from the air, which is then injected into volcanic rock.
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