The Beguiling Science of Making Planet-Saving Pavement

When it comes to beating back climate change, the big ideas get the most buzz. But among talk of banning gas-burning cars, making tech companies run server farms on renewable energy, and geo-engineering the planet into a state of salvation, the people researching pavement have a message: Don’t overlook that boring stuff beneath your wheels and your feet.

After all, pavement–and the asphalt, concrete, and steel that live inside it–is everywhere. If you look up and out a window right now and don’t see any, I’ll pay you a dollar. (I won’t.) And with the federal government reportedly inching–really, inching–toward a trillion dollar injection into American infrastructure, now may be the perfect time to make the gray stuff just a shade greener.

Aarian Marshall

https://www.wired.com/story/pavement-environment-science/