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Scientists Enhance Mother Nature’s Carbon Handling Mechanism


ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2007) — Taking a page from Nature herself, a team of researchers developed a method to enhance removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and place it in the Earth’s oceans for storage.

Unlike other proposed ocean sequestration processes, the new technology does not make the oceans more acid and may be beneficial to coral reefs. The process is a manipulation of the natural weathering of volcanic silicate rocks. Reporting in Nov. 7 issue of Environmental Science and Technology, the Harvard and Penn State team explained their method. Keep reading

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