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The right bacteria turn farms into carbon sinks
A company works with farmers to treat fields with bacteria that sequester carbon.
Fuenzalida, alongside his co-founder Tania Timmermann-Aranis, had an unconventional notion: They could harness the power of microbes residing in plant roots within the soil to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Andes is working on lowering that cost as they scale up production—the biggest limit right now is simply growing enough of the bacteria needed to supply farms. So, to get to the gigaton scale and make a dent in our current carbon dioxide output, they would have to expand to all available farmland suitable for this strategy—around 400 million acres.
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