Scientists must work urgently on predicting the effects of climate geoengineering, the chief of the US atmospheric science agency has said, as the technology is…
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‘Like a 40-metre pizza’: the seaweed farms that could feed us all – at a cost
A white metal platform on the surface of the Pacific Ocean faces another, smaller one some distance away. Sam Donohue stands on the big platform,…
View More ‘Like a 40-metre pizza’: the seaweed farms that could feed us all – at a costA solution to the climate crisis: mining the moon, researchers say
Proponents of a “moonshot” idea to deal with global heating have been handed a new, very literal, interpretation by researchers who have proposed firing plumes…
View More A solution to the climate crisis: mining the moon, researchers sayCan geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast
As global heating escalates, the US government has set out a plan to further study the controversial and seemingly sci-fi notion of deflecting the sun’s…
View More Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fastGeoengineering must be regulated if used to cut emissions, says former WTO head
Countries must urgently agree a way of controlling and regulating attempts to geoengineer the climate, and consider whether to set a moratorium on such efforts,…
View More Geoengineering must be regulated if used to cut emissions, says former WTO head‘Dimming the sun’: $100m geoengineering research programme proposed
The US should establish a multimillion-dollar research programme on solar geoengineering, according to the country’s national science academy. In a report it recommends funding of…
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