Vast sums of private and public money are now chasing a once-fringe idea: deliberately reflecting a slice of sunlight back ...
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This goes against our worldview that we as humans should live and adapt to nature,” said Åsa Larsson Blind, the Saami Council ...
Questions about cloud seeding, geoengineering and other weather-modification practices are drawing new attention as critics ...
(KNSI) - Cities are taking note as researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new method of removing per- ...
Some methods being tried to counter climate change shift the ocean’s biology or chemistry. Others would deflect solar ...
The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...
Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels, and transforming the oceans. Even if countries ...
Chinese researchers are working on a massive geoengineering project of “artificial crusting.” They are using vast amounts of blue-green algae to turn barren ...
Deserts are hard to reclaim because plants cannot survive on shifting sand, but scientists in northwest China are changing that – by dropping vast amounts of blue-green algae onto the dry terrain.
For over a century, man has chased the ability to control the weather. From early rainmakers to secret military programs and ...
As the climate crisis accelerates, carbon emission reductions might not be sufficient to lower global temperatures swiftly enough. In that scenario, geoengineering may be necessary – but the public ...
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