Direct carbon capture is key to reducing the dangerous amount of greenhouse gases that humanity has put into the atmosphere. One startup is taking a new approach to the problem by capturing CO2 from the atmosphere at a height of 52,800 feet. Called High Hopes, the Israel-based … [Read more...] about This startup wants to use balloons to capture CO2 miles above ground
Carbon Capture
This startup turns captured carbon into stone
Addressing climate change means finding new strategies for carbon capture. Many of these, like kelp farming, focus on absorbing carbon back into our natural environment. Icelandic startup Carbfix is taking on this same challenge, but rather than use plants, it's putting carbon … [Read more...] about This startup turns captured carbon into stone
Beauty giant to make perfumes with ethanol made of recycled CO2 emissions
The world’s largest fragrance company, Coty, will soon start making perfumes with alcohol made from recycled carbon emissions. Producing the fragrance lines for luxury brands like Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, and Calvin Klein, Coty has recently partnered with biotech company … [Read more...] about Beauty giant to make perfumes with ethanol made of recycled CO2 emissions
New concrete recipe enables the material to absorb CO2 twice as fast
Concrete is the most widely used material in the world. And as you might know already, it’s also one with a gargantuan environmental footprint, producing over eight percent of the world’s CO2 emissions. What’s less known about this binding material, however, is that it can also … [Read more...] about New concrete recipe enables the material to absorb CO2 twice as fast
This 20-plus-years project restored a giant swatch of seagrass meadows
While humans have undoubtedly contributed to the degradation of marine ecosystems, we are also proving capable of restoring them. Just beyond the salt marshes of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, researchers and volunteers spread more than 70 million eelgrass seeds as part of a … [Read more...] about This 20-plus-years project restored a giant swatch of seagrass meadows