Tag: direct air capture
The real reason why oil and gas companies are bullish on carbon capture
Two years ago, oil and gas company Occidental bought carbon capture startup Carbon Engineering. The transaction was hailed as a win-win: A climate...
Heirloom Carbon raises $150M to remove CO2 from the air using rocks
The globe likely breezed past 1.5°C of warming above pre-industrial levels this year, crashing through the 2016 Paris Agreement’s aspirational target. Further warming...
Amazon teams up with Orbital to remove CO2 from the air at one of its datacenters
AI’s surging power demand has put several big tech firms at risk of blowing through their climate commitments. But Amazon has partnered with...
Microsoft bets a carbon removal bake-off will help offset its skyrocketing AI emissions
Microsoft is in a pickle: It has committed to being carbon negative by 2030, but its emissions have skyrocketed more than 40% since...
Half a pound of this powder can remove as much CO2 from the air as a tree, scientists say
A typical large tree can suck as much as 40 kilograms of carbon dioxide out of the air over the course of...
Aerleum plans to turn CO2 directly into fuel for cargo ships and, eventually, airplanes
It only took four phone calls for Sébastien Fiedorow to quit his job as a venture capitalist.
The first one came from Marble, a...