HyveGeo believes it can turn the desert green and remove carbon from the atmosphere – using biochar and microscopic algae.

In just 40 days, a once barren plot of sand in this landlocked desert nation had become littered ... “They are covered in microscopic hair-like structures called hyphae which are much finer ...

(Getty Images)| The Bahamas' 3-mile-long Pink Sand Beach gets its color from crushed pink and red shells of microscopic coral insects. The shells of these critters mix with the sand, making it ...

“Biochar itself is fantastic, but if you stick it in desert sand it doesn’t do that much. Desert sand is desert sand; you need to add more to it,” explained Welch. HyveGeo first experimented ...