Buried data do not stay buried forever.
A researcher disappears near a celebrated carbon-capture project in Nevada. Monitoring records and underground behavior no longer fit the public assurances surrounding the site.
Carbon capture, geologic storage, missing research. This investigation turns on the distance between published project assurances and independently verifiable evidence. Monitoring data, geological behavior and missing research raise questions that cannot be settled by a reassuring project summary alone.
Connects climate-era technology to secrecy, liability and selective truth.
A flagship adaptation project may be concealing a deeper engineering fraud.
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