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For billions of years, the carbon cycle has been nature’s solution to removing excess carbon from the atmosphere. In nature, volcanic eruptions and life forms vent carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. Plants and trees then draw in and store this CO2 during photosynthesis. Of late, the carbon cycle has been a focus area in…
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Steam emits from a crude oil refinery in Kochi, Kerala state, India, on Aug. 26, 2022. | Photo Credit: Ap A team of European carbon removal specialists launched an initiative on Tuesday to help Indian businesses develop projects that suck carbon dioxide out the atmosphere and mitigate global warming. The Amsterdam-based group, called remove, has…
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Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The landscape along the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand region is dotted with thousands of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the surface area. These heuweltjies, as the locals call them (the word means “little hills” in Afrikaans), are termite mounds, inhabited by an underground network of…
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A plaque for “Mammoth”, the new plant of Swiss start-up Climeworks is pictured in Hellisheidi, Iceland on May 8, 2024. A Swiss start-up unveiled on May 8, 2024 its second plant in Iceland sucking carbon dioxide from the air and stocking it underground, scaling up its capacity tenfold with the aim of eliminating millions of…
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