$25 Million Prize Offered to the Person or Group that Can Heal the Earth

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$25 Million Prize Offered to the Person or Group that Can Heal the Earth

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"Could it be possible to find someone on Earth who could devise a way of removing the lethal amount of CO2 from the Earth's atmosphere?" asks Sir Richard Branson , Chairman of The Virgin Group , with former Vice President Al Gore at his side, during the announcement of the Virgin Earth Challenge in London last Friday (February 9th). The challenge offers a prize of $25 million for the scientist who comes up with a way of extracting greenhouse gases from the earth's atmosphere. Read the full story at Phyorg.com.