Carbon removal

Gravel tinted in pinks and purples
Feature

The startups betting on pulverized rocks for carbon removal

Enhanced rock weathering fuses natural processes with engineered solutions, but remains nascent — and its future is uncertain.

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Emma Foehringer Merchant
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Climeworks' DAC plant in Iceland
News

Climeworks targets a million tons of carbon removal in Canada

The Swiss company’s Canadian expansion comes as a proposed carbon tax credit heads to Parliament.

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Maeve Allsup
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Row of contractors at the Heirloom direct air capture plant
Feature

A view from the start line for direct air capture

Heirloom’s new plant will remove carbon for big name investors, but not in big quantities.

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Maeve Allsup
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A drawing of a machine surrounded by carbon molecules, with dollar bills in the foreground.
Feature

The carbon removal industry is in the ‘figuring it out’ phase

Despite major investments from Big Tech and “startling” maturation of CDR technology, mid-century removal targets are far off.

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Maeve Allsup
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 Workers standing in a basket hang from a crane next to a wind turbine under construction.
Analysis

The ripple effect of rising wind costs

With crucial low-emissions technologies dependent on renewable energy, there’s a risk that they could be less financially viable than predicted.

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Emma Woollacott
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IEA executive director Fatih Birol speaks at an Equinor conference in Norway
News

IEA: Trajectory of hydrogen and carbon removal still a question mark

But renewables are setting records, and fossil fuels are set to peak soon.

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Lisa Martine Jenkins
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A model for Oxy's Stratos DAC facility in West Texas
Analysis

Inside Amazon’s first foray into direct air capture

The tech giant sees its role as enabling commercial-scale removal.

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Maeve Allsup
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A solar panel next to several layered wind turbines on a pink background
Feature

The excess renewables opportunity

Renewables prices plunged. Projects multiplied. Now, what to do with the extra electrons?

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Emma Foehringer Merchant
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A hundred dollar bill with a molecule superimposed over it, on an orange background
Analysis

Getting to carbon removal’s $100 holy grail

The Department of Energy has established another exceedingly ambitious goal for a climate-focused technology. Here’s what that means for building the new market.

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Emma Foehringer Merchant
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