Akshat Rathi is a science journalist with Quartz. He has previously worked at The Economist and The Conversation. His writing has appeared in Nature, The Guardian and The Hindu. He has a PhD in chemistry from Oxford University and a BTech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai.

He was awarded a 2017 McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism for a project that will focus on carbon capture technology. This is an industry that has promised for decades to help stem the world's carbon-dioxide emissions problem but which has consistently failed to meet expectations. Current circumstances - the Paris agreement on climate change, some critical projects being undertaken by companies and governments, and key technological advances - may mean that carbon capture can finally begin to make a difference.

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