Articles about carbon capture

From ash to assets: Seattle’s Mast proves buried biomass from wildfires can fund forest recovery

Seattle’s Mast Reforestation has engineered a solution for disposing trees destroyed in wildfires, locking away their carbon and helping recover the damaged woods. Read More

From Army diver to carbon capture: How a Pacific deployment sparked a veteran’s climate mission

[Editor’s note: “Tech Vets: Profiles in Leadership and Innovation,” is a GeekWire series showcasing U.S. military veterans leading companies within the Pacific… Read More

This Seattle-area startup just raised $600K to capture carbon and turn it into graphite

Sustainable tech startup Homeostasis is capturing carbon in a form that the world has too much of — atmospheric CO₂… Read More

CarbonQuest, which captures carbon emitted from industrial sites, closes $20M round

CarbonQuest has closed a $20 million investment round led by Riverbend Energy Group. GeekWire previously reported on the funding in… Read More

CleanTech Alliance awarded $2.5M to create carbon-focused business hub in Washington state

Washington state’s CleanTech Alliance announced it’s receiving a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to launch… Read More

Canadian carbon capture and removal company lands up to $100M to speed deployment

Svante, a carbon capture and removal company based in British Columbia, is receiving up to $100 million to speed the… Read More

CarbonQuest, a carbon capture startup that serves industrial sites, raises cash for expansion

Spokane, Wash.-based startup CarbonQuest raised new capital to expand the reach of its carbon capturing devices. The cash is coming… Read More

This Spokane startup catches carbon dioxide at the source, before it escapes to the environment

CarbonQuest wants to take a bite out of carbon emissions at its source — before the greenhouse gases escape into… Read More

How the Pacific Northwest could become a carbon-capture hub — with help from tech and basalt

The Pacific Northwest’s lush forests are a pretty obvious place to store carbon dioxide pulled from the atmosphere. But the… Read More

Chevron leads $318M investment round for carbon capture company Svante as sector booms

British Columbia-based Svante raised a $318 million Series E round led by Chevron New Energies, a division of the fossil… Read More

Lithos, a Seattle agtech startup that uses basalt rocks to help farmers remove carbon, lands $6.3M

Lithos, a Seattle startup applying carbon capture technology in an agricultural setting, announced Thursday that it raised a $6.29 million… Read More

We visited the world’s biggest carbon capture plant, which just signed a 10-year deal with Microsoft

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A short drive from Iceland’s capital, on a lava plateau blanketed with moss and grass, the earth… Read More

I want to fly to Hawaii, but I don’t want to wreck the planet. With carbon offsets, can I do both?

The gift I best remember from my high school graduation was a pale blue stuffed whale. The parents of one… Read More

How the Pacific Northwest is playing a key role in the burgeoning world of carbon capture tech

Carbon capture is a hot new area for innovation and investment, and Pacific Northwest researchers, companies, policymakers and individuals are… Read More