How Marlon Brando’s private island inspired a plan to suck carbon pollution from the air

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A pristine atoll in the Pacific Ocean once owned by late acting legend Marlon Brando is the birthplace of a technology that could help solve a problem created far beyond its sandy…

A pristine atoll in the Pacific Ocean once owned by late acting legend Marlon Brando is the birthplace of a technology that could help solve a problem created far beyond its sandy shores. Alex Gagnon and fellow oceanographer Julian Sachs, co-founders of Seattle-based Banyu Carbon, were on Tetiaroa island, north of Tahiti, a decade ago researching the impact of ocean acidification on coral reefs, when they realized what they were doing could help tackle a global crisis. “We were having to move a lot of carbon in and out of seawater,” explained Gagnon, who’s also an associate professor at the University of Washington.

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