Carbfix in the Media

The Carbfix project's outcomes have garnered global recognition. The subsequent list presents some of the media attention that the project has received in recent years.

2023

• Bloomberg - Is CO₂ Removal Ready for Its Big Moment?
• X EARTH with John Holden - Modeling Sustainability for Business

2022

• The Washington Post - Is This a Mine Elon Musk and Joe Biden Can Both Support?
• Financial Times - Climate tech to save the planet: Out of thin air
• Vogue Scandinavia - The shoes on Björk's latest album cover are made of CO₂
• Bloomber Switched On - Rio Tinto Turns to Carbfix to Bury CO₂
• Businesswire - Verdox Wins $1M XPRIZE Carbon Removal Award Together with Partner Carbfix
• Northstack - The biggest EU grant to Iceland so far goes to Carbfix
• The Times - Time 100 most influential companies of 2022
• Green Biz - Converting captured carbon into rock really is that easy
• The Newsbreak - How this groundbreaking carbon capture facility could help fight climate change
• Vogue Business - Iceland fashion and beauty sustainability spotlight
• Carbon Herald - The Top 10 Carbon Capture Companies In 2022!

2021

• Good Morning America - How Iceland is fighting climate change with carbon dioxide l GMA
• The New York Times - Is Carbon Capture Here?
• Fortune - This startup has unlocked a novel way to capture carbon—by turning the fouling gas into rocks.
• CNN - Icelandic company is turning CO₂ into stone
• BBC - World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland
• RÚV - August - Hvað getum við gert: Episode 21, Direct Air Capture
• Süddeutsche Zeitung - June - Wie Island zur CO₂-Müllkippe werden will (German)
• Arctic Circle Podcast - June - CarbFix: a revolutionary way to turn CO₂ into stone
• RÚV - May - Hvað getum við gert: Episode 13. Carbfix/CODA
• Handelsblatt - May - Dieses isländische Unternehmen verwandelt CO₂ in Stein (German)
• Bloomberg Green - April - Iceland Startup Wants to Turn Carbon Shipped from Europe to Rock
• NBC News - April - Inside look at Iceland company's new experiment to combat climate change
• Bloomberg Green - March - The Icelandic Startup Bill Gates Uses to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Stone
• National Geographic - February - Can carbon capture make flying more sustainable?
• Thomson Reuters Foundation News - February - Scared by global warming? In Iceland, one solution is petrifying

2020

• 66 North - November - Glacier Friday
• The Guardian - October - Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
• Nova PBS - October - Can We Cool the Planet
• The Economist - September - Green machines
• We Don't Have Time - September - Exponential Climate Action Summit
• Netflix - July - Down to Earth
• BBC Future - June - How Iceland is undoing carbon emissions for good
• The Weather Channel - May - Meltdown (Documentary)
• Nature - January - Review Paper in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

2019

• Cordis - November - Carved in stone? Turning CO₂ into rock, for good (German, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Polish)
• SparkDialog - November - Ep 72: Reversing Climate Change: Turning CO₂ Into Rock – with guests Dr. Kári Helgason and Dr. Bergur Sigfússon (Podcast)
• NBC News Now - September - Iceland's new plan to save melting glaciers
• NBC Nightly News - September - Climate in Crisis: How to save a glacier
• NBC News - September - How to save a glacier: Iceland's scientists offer hope with carbon capture technology
• 360 on History - August - Transforming CO₂ into Rocks (Podcast)
• The Elephant Podcast - July - Iceland and the Surprising Science of Turning CO₂ into Rock (Podcast)
• Reformatorisch Dagblad - July - Stofzuiger haalt CO₂ uit de lucht (Dutch)
• Morgunblaðið - June - Viljayfirlýsing um kolefnishreinsun
• HBO - June - Ice on Fire
• BBC-Sounds - June - People Fixing the World - Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?
• World Economic Forum - Scientists in Iceland are turning carbon dioxide into rock
• 3sat - May - Die Reparatur der Erde
• RÚV - May - Hvað höfum við gert? Episode 8
• BBC One - April - Climate Change The Facts by David Attenborough (link not available)
• NY Times - February - The Tiny Swiss Company That Thinks It Can Help Stop Climate Change

2018

• DR - December - CO₂ bliver omdannet til sten: Kom med til Island, der eksperimenter med klimaløsninger
• DR - December - 21 Søndag (Item is no longer accessible)
• Horizon - November - Storing CO₂ underground can curb carbon emissions, but is it safe?
• Think Geoenergy - November - Innovative CO₂ capture technology at geothermal plant could be applied elsewhere
• Extract - November - Koldioxid blir till sten
• Kveikur - November - Þingkosningar í Bandaríkjunum og loftlagsbreytingar (Item is no longer accessible)
• Le Monde - October - Une entreprise aspire le CO₂ et le transforme en caillou
• Fréttablaðið - September - Orkuveita Reykjavíkur fær 2 milljarða í styrk
• Bloomberg - July - This Natural Gas Plant Has Achieved Zero Emissions
• BBC News - May - Turning carbon dioxide into rock - forever
• BBC World Service - April - Can Sucking CO₂ Out of the Air Solve Climate Change?
• Engineering and Technology - April - Gas Rocks! Mineralising carbon dioxide into rock

2017

• Carbon A list – October - Why the Carbfix2 project is a big deal
• Daily Mail – October - World‘s first ´negative emissions‘ power plant that turns CO₂ into STONE switched on in Iceland
• Newsweek – October - Scientists capture carbon dioxide and inject it into rocks for permanent storage
• Tunisie Soir – October - CarbFix project in Iceland successfully turns carbon emissions
• UpWorthy - October - 700 meters below Iceland, a company may have found a solution to the world's climate woes
• Quartz - October - The world’s first “negative emissions” plant has begun operation—turning carbon dioxide into stone
• Iceland Review - October - Revolutionary Equipment Turns Carbon Dioxide to Stone, Fighting Climate Change
• The Engineer - October - Iceland project marries carbon capture with geological storage
• Buisness green - October - Climeworks flick switch on 'world first' atmospheric carbon capture plant
• Reuters - October - From thin air to stone: greenhouse gas test starts in Iceland
• Nature - October - Emissions: We have the technology
• Think Geoenergy - May - TV coverage on CarbFix project in Iceland – turning CO₂ into minerals

2016

• CNBC – November - How carbon dioxide is being stored in rocks
• PBS NewsHour – August - To combat climate change , these scientists are turning CO₂ into rock
• WITF-TV – August -These scientists are turning harmful excess CO₂ into rock
• Forbes – June -The Science Behind How These Geologists Are Turning Carbon Emissions Into Solid Rock
• Daily Maverick – June -Nature‘s CarbFix? Scientists claim to have found a way to store carbon emissions underground
• Digital Trends – June -Iceland is fighting climate change by capturing CO₂ and turning it into stone
• The times of India – June -Scientists turn CO₂ into stone to fight climate change
• Science – June -Underground injections turn carbon dioxide to stone
• Engadget - June -CarbFix turns a power plant‘s CO₂ emissions into rock
• New York Times – June -Iceland Carbon Dioxide Storage Project Locks Away Gas, Fast
• Washington Post – June -This Iceland Plant Just Turned Carbon Dioxide Into Rock—and They Did It Super Fast
• National Geographic – June -How One Country Is Making Rocks Out of Air Pollution
• Los Angeles Times – June -How to Capture Carbon Dioxide From a Power Plant and Turn It to Stone
• BBC World Service – June -Experiment Turns Waste CO₂ to Stone
• Guardian – June -In Breakthrough, CO₂ Turned to Stone in Iceland
• The Economist – June -Turning Air Into Stone
• CNBC – June - Power Plant Turns Its Carbon Emissions to Stone
• Phys.org – June - In a First, Power Plant Turns Carbon Emissions to Stone
• Forbes – June - An Icelandic Power Plant Is Turning Carbon Emissions to Stone
• Scientific American – June - Scientists Turn Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Stone
• Times of India – June - Iceland Power Plant Turns Carbon Emissions to Rock
• Japan Times – June - Deep Below Iceland, Scientists Turn Heat-Trapping Carbon to Stone
• Smithsonian – June -Iceland Carbon Capture Project Quickly Converts Carbon Dioxide Into Stone
  

Older

• The New York Times – February, 2015 - Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Rock, and Burying It
• Scientific American – December, 2013 - A Vault for Carbon Dioxide
• Scientific American – March, 2012 - New Storage Projects Turns CO₂ into Stone
• Inhabitat – September, 2011 - CarbFix: Revolutionary Tech Could Trap CO₂ Forever by Turning It Into Harmless Rock (Item is no longer accessible)