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Four people wearing backpacks and outdoor gear hike through a grassy, forested area with trees in the background under an overcast sky.

The real cost of logging the boreal forest may be buried in the soil

The soils of "managed forests" can take decades to rebuild the carbon stocks and microbial communities found in undisturbed forests.

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The Big Think Interview

The laboratory accident that saved 500 million lives

“Invention matters, but implementation matters more.”

Industrial landscape featuring large smokestacks and various structures of an oil refinery, some incorporating cutting-edge carbon removal technology, set under a cloudy sky.

Not all forms of carbon removal are created equal

The carbon market and offsetting system have created “carbon cowboys” and perpetuated forms of neo-colonialism and other inequities.

a painting of a boat floating in the ocean.

Life

Scientists want to dump iron nanoparticles into the oceans to save the planet

Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.

Engineers create world’s first carbon-neutral cement out of algae

Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.

Stephen Johnson

photosynthesis

Plants aren’t good at photosynthesis. We can do it better

Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.

Companies are sucking carbon from the atmosphere using “direct air capture”

Here’s how it works.

Victoria Masterson

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