SciAm: Can We Bulldoze Enough Forests to Prevent Climate Change?
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Essay by Eric Worrall
I’m sure there was a time greens wanted to protect forests from bulldozers.
OCTOBER 16, 2025
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Can We Bury Enough Wood to Slow Climate Change?
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—and some companies are already trying it.
BY SYRIS VALENTINE EDITED BY ANDREA THOMPSON
Humanity has only so much time to limit global warming and minimize the severity of future climate disasters. And with mostly tepid attempts to slash greenhouse gas emissions, researchers are scrambling for realistic ways to pull carbon out of the atmosphere. 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—but are falling far short of expectations. Now a growing number of scientists and entrepreneurs are trying a vastly simpler approach: collecting truckloads of logs, branches, wood chips and sawdust—and burying them.
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“If we want to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,” says the study’s lead author Yiqi Luo, a Cornell University ecosystem ecologist, “we basically need to create new reservoirs in land, ocean or geological structures.”
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Read more:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wood-vaulting-could-help-slow-climate-change/The abstract of the study;
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/17/sciam-can-we-bulldoze-enough-forests-to-prevent-climate-change/