Geoengineers eye up ocean ‘dead zones’ for carbon storage

Geoengineers eye up ocean ‘dead zones’ for carbon storage

Scientists and entrepreneurs from across the world gathered in Bucharest earlier this year to discuss a temptingly simple idea to battle climate change. Gathering up plant scraps left over from agriculture and sinking them into the depths of the ocean could, they believe, take carbon that nature has locked up in plants and put it where it cannot escape. Proponents believe the simplicity of the concept sidesteps some of the issues that have dogge…