Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier”
The Thwaites glacier is a fortress larger than Florida, a wall of ice that reaches nearly 4,000 feet above the
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Geoengineering
Why new proposals to restrict geoengineering are misguided
The public debate over whether we should consider intentionally altering the climate system is heating up, as the dangers of
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The inadvertent geoengineering experiment that the world is now shutting off
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Harvard has halted its long-planned atmospheric geoengineering experiment
Harvard researchers have ceased a long-running effort to conduct a small geoengineering experiment in the stratosphere, following repeated delays and
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The inside scoop on solar geoengineering
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The flawed logic of rushing out extreme climate solutions
Early last year, entrepreneur Luke Iseman says, he released a pair of sulfur dioxide–filled weather balloons from Mexico’s Baja California
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This technology could alter the entire planet. These groups want every nation to have a say.
Picture two theoretical futures: one in which nations counteract climate change by spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere, and another
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Researchers launched a solar geoengineering test flight in the UK last fall
Last September, researchers in the UK launched a high-altitude weather balloon that released a few hundred grams of sulfur dioxide
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These startups hope to spray iron particles above the ocean to fight climate change
Within the next 18 months, a Palo Alto–based startup wants to begin releasing a small quantity of iron-rich particles into
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