Innovative Ways to Capture Carbon

A closer look at CO2-absorbing artificial trees and underwater blue carbon markets.

By Megan Molteni
Feb 7, 2014 12:00 AMOct 10, 2019 5:06 PM
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Plastic tree-like filters, like the prototype on the left, could someday be housed in structures like this one. Klaus lackner; Global Research technologies

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Artificial “Trees”

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air is now at its highest level in human history, largely because of coal-burning power plants and vehicle emissions. Only about half of the more than 30 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted worldwide each year gets reabsorbed naturally by the planet’s oceans and forests. 

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