By Tim McDonnell, SemaforOne of the biggest carbon removal facilities in the US is closing in on a final investment decision to triple its capacity.Graphyte — backed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures — takes plant waste from paper and timber mills, farms, and other facilities and converts it into solid bricks that can be buried underground, thereby taking the carbon that the plant photosynthesized while alive. The company opened its first facility in Arkansas last year, and ha...| Graphyte
A Stony Brook University doctoral student was awarded a grant from The Leakey Foundation to study how primates have adapted to living in coastal Kenya.| SBU News
Stony Brook University scholars called for greater international collaboration to protect endangered coral reefs at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France| SBU News
Stony Brook University assistant professor David Sprouster has research projects meeting the challenge of strengthening materials used in research projects.| SBU News
Waste biomass created by forestry work, crop production and wildfire mitigation is often simply burned, releasing the carbon stored within. But what if we could stop that carbon from entering the atmosphere by burying the biomass instead? Michael Allen investigatesA tomb in a mineAnother carbon-removal company, however, claims it has hit this benchmark using biomass burial. “We’re selling our first credits at $100 per tonne,” says Hannah Murnen, chief technology officer at Graphyte – ...| Graphyte
Stony Brook Medicine, Southampton Hospital Association and the Southampton Hospital Foundation held a special ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 5 to celebrate the late spring opening of the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department. Once open, the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department, an off-campus extension of Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Emergency Department, will be one| SBU News
