Douglas MacMartin, a visiting scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, discusses how solar geoengineering could fit into the array of solutions for…
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The EU has waded for the first time into the highly controversial debate on geo-engineering, a…
And exactly how much carbon they remove can vary quite a bit based on variables like the health of the vegetation. “One of the major risks of some of these biology-based proposals is that an assumption gets made that you can easily equate X…
Geoengineering the climate would have massive repercussions for the health of billions of people at risk of malaria who live in tropical countries, according to a new finding by scientists at Georgetown University Medical Center and…
WIRED: Would we notice this? Visually, would we see anything? KR: Yes, on an absolute scale. It changes the ratio of direct and diffuse radiation. So the idea is the sky would on average become a little bit whiter, and, for example, sunsets…
Neal Stephenson has no trouble getting the science right in his speculative sci-fi best sellers, which dwell on how people might respond to new technologies that upend the world. But sometimes his guesses aren’t borne out by what happens…
If successful, solar geoengineering would would reduce the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth’s surface and warms the planet. Credit: Shutterstock…
As concerns grow about how quickly the world can curb greenhouse-gas emissions, some scientists want to research an additional approach to the problem of global warming: solar geoengineering.
In contrast to preventing…