To Fight Climate Change: Grow a Floating Forest, Then Sink It
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
| 0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
| 0:11.0 | Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
| 0:20.1 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
| 0:22.7 | .jp. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.jp. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacult. A fast-growing front in the battle against climate change is focused on developing |
| 0:44.2 | green technologies aimed at reducing humankind's carbon footprint. |
| 0:48.8 | But many scientists say simply reducing emissions is no longer enough. |
| 0:53.7 | We have to find new ways to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. |
| 0:57.3 | A main startup is looking to raise a sinkable carbon-capturing forest in the open ocean. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm Teresa Carey, and this is Scientific American's 60-second science. |
| 1:08.5 | A few weeks, these tanks will be full of little baby oysters the size of a piece of quinoa, but right |
| 1:16.6 | now they're still in the larval stage. |
| 1:18.6 | Adam Bass strolls through a warehouse on the coast of Harbswell, Maine. |
| 1:22.6 | Surrounding him are trays of oysters, with water circulating between them in small tubes. |
| 1:29.0 | In another room stands rows of eight-foot-tall tanks of algae, growing at different stages. |
| 1:35.2 | The algae will be food for the oysters. |
| 1:37.8 | If you've never seen a shellfish hatchery, this one looks pretty typical. |
| 1:41.7 | But it's not. |
| 1:43.2 | This year, they're planning to harvest something |
| 1:45.5 | new, atmospheric carbon. His company, called Running Tide Technologies, plans to grow vast quantities of |
| 1:54.1 | seaweed in drifting ocean mini farms, farms that the company plans to sink to the bottom of the ocean. |
| 2:00.0 | So this is basically taking the emissions of our fossil fuel burning, |
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