Will sinking tonnes of wood into the ocean help tackle climate change?

More than 10,000 tonnes of waste wooden have been sunk into the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to take away carbon dioxide from the environment. The US-based firm behind the trouble, Running Tide, says the carbon inside the wooden, which might in any other case have been burned, gained’t be circulated out of the deep ocean for a whole lot and even hundreds of thousands of years.

This effort is the biggest but amongst a rising slate of start-ups aiming to lock up CO2 on the seafloor from the …