Clip Wall Street Journal Cat Litter Could Be Antidote for Climate Change, Researchers Say (May 14) | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2022-05-21 17:52:07 By : Mr. YI FANG

Wall Street Journal reporter Ryan Dezember visited Prof. Desiree Plata’s lab to learn more about her group’s work developing a new tool to help address climate change. Plata and her colleagues “soaked an odor-eating clay used in cat boxes in a copper solution to create a compound that they say snatches methane from passing air and turns it into carbon dioxide, a much less harmful greenhouse gas.” The new technique has the “potential to greatly reduce the amount of methane in the atmosphere and slow warming temperatures on the planet.”

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