carbon capture

Climeworks doubles CO2 capture, halves costs at Iceland plant

Climeworks, the Swiss carbon removal company, announced on September 10 that technology upgrades at its Mammoth direct air capture facility in Iceland have more than doubled CO₂ capture performance in upgraded collector containers, while cutting operating costs per ton by…

Engineered bacteria speed up ocean carbon removal in Harvard study

Researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute have genetically engineered a marine bacterium to speed up rock weathering in seawater, removing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the process. The findings, published Friday in Nature Biotechnology, demonstrate that the modified…