{"id":409150,"date":"2025-10-19T20:24:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=409150"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:24:48","slug":"sciam-can-we-bulldoze-enough-forests-to-prevent-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=409150","title":{"rendered":"SciAm: Can We Bulldoze Enough Forests to Prevent Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure there was a time greens wanted to protect forests from bulldozers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OCTOBER 16, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 MIN READ<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can We Bury Enough Wood to Slow Climate Change?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year\u2014and some companies are already trying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY SYRIS VALENTINE<\/a> EDITED BY ANDREA THOMPSON<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Humanity has only so much time to limit global warming and minimize the severity of\u00a0future climate disasters<\/a>. And with mostly tepid attempts to\u00a0slash greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>, researchers are scrambling for realistic ways to\u00a0pull carbon out of the atmosphere<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flashy, high-tech proposals that promise to vacuum pollutants out of the sky, or to scrub them from smokestacks before they hit the atmosphere, have attracted attention and investment\u2014but are\u00a0falling far short of expectations<\/a>. Now a growing number of scientists and entrepreneurs are trying a vastly simpler approach: collecting truckloads of logs, branches, wood chips and sawdust\u2014and burying them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf we want to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,\u201d says the study\u2019s lead author Yiqi Luo, a Cornell University ecosystem ecologist, \u201cwe basically need to create new reservoirs in land, ocean or geological structures.\u201d

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-wood-vaulting-could-help-slow-climate-change\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The abstract of the study;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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