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Isle of Jura research casts new light on how rivers carve through landscapes

The waters of the remote Scottish island of Jura have long been famous for making whiskey. Now, the island's rivers have helped geologists learn more about how rivers erode rocks, providing new evidence that what streams carry plays an important role in how they carve through landscapes.

Isle of Jura research casts new light on how rivers carve through landscapes

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Carbon capture tech exists. Scaling it up is the hard part

Europe just opened a carbon capture and storage plant billed as the continent's largest. But global climate scenarios call for far more capacity than exists anywhere on Earth.

  • Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology exists but scaling it globally is challenging.
  • Only 77 operational commercial CCS plants worldwide, capturing a fraction of needed CO2.
  • High cost of building new CCS plants requires government subsidies and policy intervention.

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