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The promise — and limitations — of carbon removal technology

Find out more about our Reverse Course series here.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd and Chris Bentley open up their notebooks after months of reporting on the development of carbon-removal technology.

As part of Here & Now‘s Reverse Course series, the two traveled the country to see how scientists and business leaders are trying to lock away planet-warming carbon that’s already in the atmosphere.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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