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Can carbon capture make flying more sustainable? Chloe Berge © Photograph by NASA, Eyevine/Redux Reducing emissions from air travel won’t be enough to tame their effect on climate change, experts say. We need to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, too. It’s the time of year to set goals, and United Airlines recently announced a lofty one. The carrier plans to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. How? In part by backing a technology called direct air capture, which sucks carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Humans spew more than 44 billion tons of CO 2 into the atmosphere every year. Tourism contributes up to 8 percent of those emissions, with flying making up the largest share, according to a 2018 study published in

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