News tagged sequester
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The Urgent Need for Action: Addressing Climate Change Before It's Too Late
This article emphasizes the urgent need for immediate action to combat climate change, highlighting the importance of investing in renewable energy, promoting sustainable agricultural practices, and adopting policies that encourage sustainable practices and behavior changes.
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New Technologies for Reduced-Carbon Concrete Are On the Horizon
Startups and more established suppliers of products that reduce the carbon footprint of concrete are developing systems to capture and sequester carbon dioxide. Some are even seeking ways to produce the material and its ingredients without creating huge carbon footprints.
Resources tagged sequester
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BBC World Service - Surprising things you can make with mushrooms 22032021
The roots of fungi are being used to make compostable versions of products we use every day. The idea is to make our homes and the things we buy more environmentally friendly, such as thermal insulation and packaging
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TED - Biochar: The Oldest New Thing You've Never Heard Of, 17062019
Biochar — a DIY, scalable technique to both improve horticultural yields and sequester carbon simultaneously
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DW Planet A - Can we engineer the ocean to eat more of our emissions, 30092022
Marine environments are effective at capturing carbon and storing it for thousands of years. But what if we could engineer them to capture even more? Can they take on this burden?
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Undecided - The Reality of Carbon Capture, 26072022
Carbon Capture has advanced a lot in recent years. As well as Direct Air Carbon Capture technology, there are some natural approaches such as Biochar and Enhanced Weathering that are starting to get attention that could not only sequester carbon from the atmosphere, but also improve our food production, reduce erosion, and many other benefits.
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FT - Pulling carbon dioxide out of thin air, 12112020
Right now, there are machines that can pull CO2 out of the air. It sounds like a perfect solution to global warming, but as the FT’s Leslie Hook explains, the process is a complex one. It’s also far more expensive than some other methods of sequestering carbon, such as planting trees, although companies are working hard to bring costs down
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