Technology to tackle dangerous global waming

To halt climate change and prevent dangerous warming, we ultimately have to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. While the world is making slow progress on reducing emissions, there are more radical options, such as removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and storing them underground.

In a paper published today in Science my colleagues and I report on a successful trial converting carbon dioxide (CO₂) to rock and storing it underground in Iceland. Although we trialled only a small amount of CO₂, this method has enormous potential.

Read the piece on The Conversation by a senior lecturer from the Western Australian School of Mines at Curtin University, Dom Wolff-Boenisch - “New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground.”