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The Illinois trial, the first of its kind in the United States, is one of many efforts to leverage the potential of different materials to combat global warming.
The trial, the first of its kind in the United States, is one of many efforts to leverage the potential of different materials to combat global warming.
The trial, the first of its kind in the United States, is one of many efforts to leverage the potential of different materials to combat global warming.
Over the course of millions of years, the earth regularly removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through a natural process called weathering, when exposure to the elements wears down surface rocks and silicate minerals. But at the rate humans have been producing and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution, this process that happens on a geological time .