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Oct 31

🚨🌲 New research reveals that even intact boreal forests, some of the planet’s strongest natural carbon sinks, lose their ability to absorb CO₂ as they age.

Here’s what the scientists found & why it matters for our climate models🧵1/9 #CarbonSink #CarbonRemoval

2/ Boreal forests cover vast regions across Canada, Russia, and Scandinavia and store enormous amounts of carbon in trees and soil.

They’re often seen as stable, long-term carbon sinks, but this study challenges that assumption with new global-scale data.

3/ Using seven global Net Ecosystem Productivity (NEP) datasets and a high-resolution forest age map, researchers tracked how C uptake changes as forests grow older.

They used a space-for-time substitution method, comparing forests of different ages to infer long-term trends.

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Oct 29

🚨A major 6-country survey (N=5,310) finds Europeans support -ve emissions to meet climate goals, but strongly prefer nature-based solutions like afforestation over engineered options like Direct Air Capture. Trust hinges on benefits for nature & future generations.

🧵1/10 #CDR

2/ When allocating how to tackle emissions, respondents clearly prioritized immediate mitigation:

• Renewables: 37.3%
• Behavior change: 24.0%
• Nuclear: 20.2%
• NETPs: 18.5%

➡️ This shows people support #CDR, but believe deep emissions cuts must come first.

3/ So which NETPs do they support most?

2 approaches were evaluated:
🌲Afforestation/Reforestation (AR)
🏭Direct Air Capture + Carbon Storage (DACCS)

AR scored +1.91 vs DACCS +0.64

➡️ This means people are 4.36× more likely to support forests as the favored way to remove CO₂.

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Oct 22

🚨A new study warns that efforts to cool the planet through stratospheric aerosol injection (#SAI) could face far greater challenges than models predict, from unpredictable monsoon shifts to material shortages & engineering limits, every step adds new risks.

🧵1/8 #SRM

2/ The authors explore both micro-level (engineering) and macro-level (governance & supply) factors that could restrict feasible deployment.

Key finding: these constraints could drastically raise costs, risks, and uncertainty, especially for “solid” (non-sulfate) aerosols.

3/ Traditional SAI uses sulfate aerosols (like volcanoes).

But alternatives, CaCO₃, TiO₂, Al₂O₃, ZrO₂, even diamond, promise less ozone damage.

Yet producing, aerosolizing, and dispersing these solids in submicron form is technically daunting.

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Oct 19

📝💡𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐃𝐑 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬💡📝

📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (13 October - 19 October 2025):

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Nordbex and Aker Solutions signed an MoU to develop Bio-CCUS plants across Europe.
mynewsdesk.com/se/nordbex-ab/…

Bain & Company has partnered with ZeroEx to scale up enhanced rock weathering projects.
qcintel.com/carbon/article…

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Oct 17

🚨Scientists built a device that captures carbon from the seawater and turns it into biodegradable plastic, using bacteria as a living bioreactor.

#CDR #mCDR #CarbonDioxideRemoval #Bioplastics

DETAILS🧵1/8

2/ The system comprises 3 components:

1️⃣ C extraction

Traditional seawater electrolysis systems often fail within hours due to mineral buildup

To solve this, researchers designed a solid-state electrolysis unit that isolates sensitive ions using membranes & a solid electrolyte

3/ The modified design acidifies H2O, converting dissolved C (mainly bicarbonate & carbonate ions) into CO₂ gas for collection.

The prototype operated continuously for 22 days, processing 177 liters of seawater & extracting 6.54L of CO₂, with an energy use of 3 kWh/kg of CO₂.

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Oct 16

🚨French Academy of Sciences has released a new report on #SolarGeoengineering, stressing that the absolute priority must remain reducing GHG emissions via structural changes & accelerating adaptation to climate impacts.

On #SRM, the report offers several recommendations:🧵1/6

2/ SRM Recommendation 1️⃣

Promote an international agreement aimed at prohibit any initiative, public or private, to deploy SRM, regardless of the framework or scale.

To do this, the entire scientific community will have to be involved.

3/ SRM Recommendation 2️⃣

Support & deepen research on climate, atmospheric physicochemical processes and biodiversity in order to be able to rigorously assess the potential & risks of SRM.

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