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Can we counter climate change by dumping carbon in the ocean?

Researchers and start-ups are exploring a variety of ways of locking up carbon in the sea, from seaweed farming to fertilising the oceans with iron – but we know little about the implications

By Madeleine Cuff

28 March 2023

Farmed kelp could capture and store large amounts of carbon

Running Tide

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Earlier this month, I wrote about a new kind of direct air capture technology that could see carbon dioxide sucked from the atmosphere, turned into baking soda and stored in the oceans.

The researchers behind the idea insisted that, in theory, adding huge amounts of baking soda would do our seas no harm – in fact, …

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