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carbon storage

Illinois Lawmakers Vote to Limit Carbon Sequestration Near a Major Aquifer

The state’s vast farmlands sit atop an underground basin of rock that is ideal for some carbon dioxide storage, but legislators want to protect a valuable aquifer that provides water to hundreds of thousands of people.  

By Susan Cosier

 Image shows a close-up of a carbon dioxide pipeline
A young cow grazes near a stack of hay at KazBeef's cow-calf operation near the village of Mamay, Kazakhstan.

Turning Kazakhstan Into a Beef-Producing Machine, the American Way

Story and photos by Georgina Gustin
A view of Archer-Daniels-Midland's processing complex in Decatur, Illinois. Credit: PR Newswire

A Carbon Capture Monitoring Well Leaked in Illinois. Most Residents Found Out When the World Did

By Nina B. Elkadi
Sonia Sanchez, a notary in Buttonwillow, California, has helped organize local opposition to a proposed carbon storage project in Kern County. Credit: Joshua Yeager/KVPR

Proposals to Build California’s First Carbon Storage Facilities Face a Key Test

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News and Joshua Yeager, KVPR
Direct air capture, a technique that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, has been growing in popularity over the past decade, but critics worry that it is too energy-intensive. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

Carbon Removals Aren’t Just About Getting the Science Right

By Mathilde Augustin
The Snowy River Carbon Sequestration Project will use the space under this federal public land in Carter County, Montana, as a storage vessel for greenhouse gas emissions. Credit: Najifa Farhat/Inside Climate News

Montana Is a Frontier for Deep Carbon Storage, and the Controversies Surrounding the Potential Climate Solution

By Najifa Farhat
An aerial view of a mangrove forest near the Saloum Delta in Senegal. Credit: Cem Ozdel/Anadolu via Getty Images

How Good are Re-Planted Mangroves at Storing Carbon? A New Study Puts a Number on It

By Alexa Robles-Gil
Oil pumpjacks dot the landscape on the outskirts of Taft, Kern County, California. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

California’s Oil Country Hopes Carbon Management Will Provide Jobs. It May Be Disappointed

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Joshua Yeager
Gulf Oil Spill Spreads

A Known Risk: How Carbon Stored Underground Could Find Its Way Back Into the Atmosphere

By Terry L. Jones and Pam Radtke, Floodlight
In an aerial view, ranchers and other participants gather to observe cattle grazing in freshly opened pasture using adaptive grazing at CS Ranch, as they take part in the Soil Health Academy which teaches regenerative agriculture techniques, on June 1, 2022 in Cimarron, New Mexico. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Climate-Smart Cowboys Hope Regenerative Cattle Ranching Can Heal the Land and Sequester Carbon

By Emma Peterson
This clear-cutting in March in Hoosier National Forest, captured by drone, is taking place in Crawford County in southern Indiana, just south of an even larger project the Forest Service is planning in an area it calls Buffalo Springs. Photo courtesy of Robbie Heinrich

Log and Burn, or Leave Alone? Indiana Residents Fight US Forest Service Over the Future of Hoosier National Forest

By Marianne Lavelle
Trees standing in the Amazon rainforest. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

New Research Shows Global Climate Benefits Of Protecting Nature, but It’s Not a Silver Bullet

By Bob Berwyn
Custer Gallatin National Forest includes hundreds of glaciers as well as pine savannas. The Forest Service plans logging about 90 miles south of Fairy Lake in the Bridger Mountains, pictured. Credit: Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Logging Plan on Yellowstone’s Border Shows Limits of Biden Greenhouse Gas Policy

By Marianne Lavelle
The sun sets behind a herd of bison in Wind Cave National Park, Aug. 14, 2001 in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota. A new study shows that restoring large populations of bison and other animals would speed up biological carbon pumps that take carbon dioxide out of the air and store it in a form that doesn't harm the climate. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

‘Rewilding’ Parts of the Planet Could Have Big Climate Benefits

By Bob Berwyn
Several institutions use Sage Lot Pond Marsh for research. Boardwalks allow scientists to walk through the marsh with heavy equipment without damaging vegetation. Credit: Joanna Carey, Babson College

Low Salt Marsh Habitats Release More Carbon in Response to Warming, a New Study Finds

By Hannah Loss
Lou Ann Varley looks out across the pond that holds water for the cooling towers at the Jim Bridger coal plant, where she worked for 37 years before retiring in 2020. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz

Carbon Removal Is Coming to Fossil Fuel Country. Can It Bring Jobs and Climate Action?

By Nicholas Kusnetz
A recently logged patch of woods on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest on April 1, 2022 in Chatham, New Hampshire. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

At COP27, the US Said It Will Lead Efforts to Halt Deforestation. But at Home, the Biden Administration Is Considering Massive Old Growth Logging Projects

By Bob Berwyn

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