Startup Says It’s Gene Hacked Trees to Suck Up More Climate-Destroying CO2

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Takeaways:

  • Start-up Living Carbon has found a way to genetically-modify fast-growing supertrees.
  • The company found that these trees grew about 53% more mass than a traditional tree and could remove 27% more carbon from the atmosphere.
  • Living Carbon plans to double its acreage of planted trees yearly, aiming to remove 604 million metric tons of carbon by 2030.

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