How Carbon Removal can help clean our air and cool our planet.

Originally posted on The Cool Down

Our planet has natural assets like oceans, forests, soil, and mangroves that absorb carbon from the atmosphere and regulate Earth's temperature. These are also known as carbon sinks. But nature is struggling to keep up with humanity's rising amount of carbon pollution. And practices like deforestation are weakening nature's ability to store some of this pollution. 

The increased release of carbon and other polluting gases like methane into the atmosphere acts like a blanket over the Earth, trapping heat the planet would have normally expelled into space. A hotter planet increases the severity of extreme weather events, like intense droughts and hurricanes, which can cause water and food shortages. 

Carbon removal can help restore and increase nature's ability to draw polluting gases from the air while technology can help us draw out carbon pollution faster. Read more here.