One Study Suggests Refloating the Aral Sea to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions

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If someone tells you that the key to curbing climate change is filling a salt desert the size of Belgium with water, the first thing you think about is a disaster film script. But the proposal doesn’t come from Hollywood: a team of Spanish scientists just put numbers and a concrete solution on the table. The idea is as crazy as it is fascinating: to re-inundate the Aral Sea so that it stops emitting CO2 to the beast. The estimated cost is around…

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Palma (EFE).- An international study with the participation of the Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies (Imedea) concludes that the partial re-flooding of the Aral Sea could prevent the emission of 605 megatonnes of additional carbon dioxide (CO2) and generate billions of dollars in carbon credits. The research, published in Science magazine and led by scientists from the Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), has counted on t…