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Can Removing Carbon From the Atmosphere Save Us From Climate Catastrophe?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that limiting global warming to 1.5˚C will require removing CO2 from the atmosphere. How feasible is this?

by Renee Cho |November 27, 2018

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