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March 24, 2025

A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon

  • Companies are pitching the theory that sinking rocks, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide.
    • By HELEN WIEFFERING
    Associated Press

    HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of minerals into the ocean in the name of stopping climate change.

    Whether it's pollution or a silver bullet that will save the planet may depend on whom you ask.


     
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