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Can we tweak marine chemistry to help stave off climate change?

  • Written by Wil Burns, Professor of Research & Co-Director, Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy, American University School of International Service
Trapping carbon dioxide in minerals happens naturally over thousands of years. Can humans speed it up – safely?Simon Clancy, CC BY-SA

The world’s nations are nowhere near to meeting the global Paris Agreement’s goals on climate change of holding global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius compared to 19th-century averages,...

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