The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has been given a go-ahead for a climate experiment.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has approved the Loch Ness project.
Woods Hole researchers will release 17-thousand pounds of liquid sodium hydroxide into the ocean about 60 miles northeast of Provincetown this summer.
This will be done in an effort to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in the ocean, potentially for thousands of years.
The liquid will mix into seawater, and researchers will monitor the spread to see if it will take up carbon and store it as bicarbonate.
The approach could also possibly be used to de-acidify seawater.
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